Adrift 76 days lost at sea

When Steve Callahan's sloop sank west of the Canary Islands, he was adrift alone in a small raft for 76 days with only three pounds of food and eight pints of water. He drifted 1,000 miles to the Caribbean. His story is exciting, devastating, courageous and historic, for he is the only man to have survived more than a month alone at sea in an inflatable raft.

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Before The Perfect Storm , before In the Heart of the Sea , Steven Callahan's Adrift chronicled one of the most astounding voyages of the century and one of the great sea adventures of all time. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is now an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived for more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days from port.

Racked by hunger, buffeted by storms, scorched by the tropical sun, Callahan drifted for 1,800 miles, fighting off sharks with a makeshift spear and watching as nine ships passed him by. "A real human drama that delves deeply into man's survival instincts" ( Library Journal ), Adrift is a story of anguish and horror, of undying heroism, hope, and survival, and a must-read for any adventure lover.

"An utterly absorbing saga." -- Newsweek

"Fascinating...a clearly written ocean yarn in which the stakes are high and a brave man wins through." -- Wall Street Journal

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Steven Callahan is a naval architect who has contributed more than sixty articles to yachting magazines. Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost At Sea (1986) is an autobiographical account of the second solo voyage Callahan attempted on the twenty-one-foot yacht he had designed and built, the Napoleon Solo, and his harrowing two-and-a-half-months adrift on a five-foot inflatable raft after the yacht collided with a whale and sank.

Callahan was born in Needham, Massachusetts, in 1952 and received his B.A. from Syracuse University in 1974.

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