Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
by Steven Callahan
Callahan's solo survival in a life raft across the Atlantic: ingenuity, despair and discipline. A survival classic written by a thoughtful man.
Read it if…
you want survival as problem-solving.
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Skip it if…
you want action; it is slow and inward.
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Three things you will actually use
- Solve today's problem.
- Ritual holds the mind together.
- Despair passes if you keep working.
Do this first
Read the chapter on repairing the raft.
Our verdict
Seventy-six days alone.
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