Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Told with desperation and some much needed occasional humor, Callahan paints a story so real and frought with fear that you can read it in one sitting. It is difficult to imagine what one would do in a similiar situation and the very thought of it is spine tingling.

This is a tale for every person who ever took to the water and every adventurer who feels safe in thier environment. You will never take the ocean for granted again after reading this book.


A great survival book!   August 27, 2003
AceAg82 (Texas United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful

This book is an excellent ocean survival story that kept me throughly entertained from start to finish. Honestly I couldn't put the book down. This book will change the way you look at your life. After you finish reading it, you won't take the simple things in life for granted anymore. If you enjoy true life adventure and survival books, then I suggest you read this one, it's excellent.


A Learning Experience   November 6, 2005
Mario M. Vittone (Chesapeake, VA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

Nothing like the experience of others to teach you what you don't know. Steve Callahan graciously allowed readers into his most private thoughts during his worst moments. I learned things I didn't know about sea survival, and I teach sea survival. Like so many other stories about people that survive against ridiculous odds and in the face of extreme discomfort and lonliness, Callahan's story reveals that most of us have never gone through anything. My worst day ever was better than steves best in his raft.

If nothing else, Steve's story will put another nagging voice in your head whenever you feel the need to complain. Compared with his experience; I've never been hungry, or tired or thirsty, or lonely, or the least but uncomfortable in my life.




An excellent book.   March 19, 2007
Jason M. (Houston, TX USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Adrift is the story of Steven Callahan who built and sailed "Napoleon Solo" across the Atlantic one and one half times. Attempting to sail in the `Mini Transat' race, Callahan's boat is sunk and he get out with little other than a safety raft and a small collection of supplies. Callahan survives for seventy six days alone to land in Guadeloupe with few injuries and in relative good health.

There are few weaknesses to this book and you are left hoping selfishly that his journey had been over one hundred days so that you could read more. I was left amazed by Callahan's patience, intelligence, fortitude, and ability to adapt to his surroundings. This is a book where you hope you would do like the author did - but doubting your ability. Certainly the best book I have read in the genre.