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 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated Mon, 4 Dec 2000 1:03:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Paul Hollerbach" <paulhollerbach_at_netzero.net> writes: << For your wintertime reading list: I just finished "Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea" [snip: in my opinion deservedly positive review] Published by Ballantine in 1986, ISBN # 0-345-41015-7 >> In that vein you might also be interested in "Alone at Sea", the story by and about the German physician Hannes Lindemann who crossed from the Azores to the Caribbean twice in the mid-fifties (once in a dug out canoe and the second time in a stock folding boat). Lindemann's purpose, deeply impressed by the fate of many airmen, who ditched in the ocean during the second world war (as well as ship crews from torpedoed vessels, of course), was to investigate how a person might go about surviving that kind of ordeal. Peter Schwierzke (KlepperWest) sells copies. Peter is the man responsible for the production of the most recent translated English edition, by the way. Ralph Hoehn Ralph_at_PouchBoats.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
>In a message dated Mon, 4 Dec 2000 1:03:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Paul >Hollerbach" <paulhollerbach_at_netzero.net> writes: > ><< For your wintertime reading list: > >I just finished "Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea" > >[snip: in my opinion deservedly positive review] > >Published by Ballantine in 1986, ISBN # 0-345-41015-7 >> > Here is a couple other books Steven Callahan co-authored; "Capsized" by James Nalepka and Steven Callahan Harper Paperbacks ISBN 0-06-109090-5 Adrift for 119 days in the south Pacific - they were four men alone against the sea on a overturned trimaran in a compartment only six and a half feet long and four and a half feet wide. "Survivor" by Michael Greenwald , Edited by Steven Callahan and Dougal Robertson Blue Horizons Press ISBN 0-931297-03-6 pbk. Great study on how to survive on the open sea and how people have survived alone at sea. Covers topics from the survival craft to food and water to emergency medicine for Castaways and much more. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
My wintertime pick: Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose -Bob Matter Hammond, IN *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 07:49 PM 12/4/00 -0600, Robert J. Matter wrote: >My wintertime pick: > >Undaunted Courage : Meriwether >Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the >Opening of the American West >by Stephen E. Ambrose I'm old fashioned, I guess: The Course of Empire, and Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto. DeVoto may be a little passe, as the books are now over 50 years old, but neither have lost their punch. DeVoto's edit of the L&C journals is also very good. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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