Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

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Houghton Mifflin, 1986 - 234 pages
Describes the true experiences of the author, who is forced to survive in an inflatable raft for seventy-six days in the Atlantic Ocean.

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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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