[Paddlewise] A wintertime reading recommendation

For your wintertime reading list:

I just finished "Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea" by Steven Callahan,
loaned to me by a freind. I couldn't put it down until I finished it's 234
pages. Here's a few teaser lines from the back cover:

"January 29, 1982, S.C. set sail in his small sloop from the Canary Islands
bound for the Carribean. Six days out, the sloop sank and Callahan found
himself in a five-and-a-half-foot inflatable raft...drifted for seventy-six
days over eighteen-hundred miles of ocean...watched nine ships pass bby..."


You get the idea. It's quite a tale, is very well written and he's also a
darned good illustrator. It's a harrowing and compelling read, he sticks to
the details, you really feel like you're right there with him. The man is
skilled, humble, lucky, grateful, funny, determined and stubborn. He still
sails up there in Maine.

As one of the critics says on the opening page, "This is a real human drama
that delves deeply into a man's survival instincts. It should be read by
anyone venturing offshore in a small boat."

Published by Ballantine in 1986, ISBN # 0-345-41015-7


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