Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea

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Summary: An Incredible Ride
Review: Steve's survival story is truly amazing. While reading I felt like I was right there, lost at sea. Being lost at sea for seventy-six days and surviving to tell the story is incredible. The risk of sailing across the Atlantic by himself takes a lot of courage, but to keep on going after you see your survival gear fall helplessly to the bottom of the ocean is something else. I felt Steve Callahan's pain and glory during his story. The burning sun roasting his body and the waves pummeling his raft. Not having any dry clothes for over two months. But then your adrenaline starts going again when he sees a boat in the distance or a plane flying over. You think He'll be saved. But then nothing. Back to the horror. Mr. Callahan does and excellent job of putting the reader right there to take the ride all over again. The reader knows the outcome of the journey because Steve survives, but can't help wondering and feeling what is going to happen next. Steve Callahan's journey across the Atlantic can only serve as inspiration to others. He never gave up hope and did what had to be done to survive. It just shows that no matter how bad the situation may be, one can persevere. Steve put me in that place with him and what an incredible ride he took me on.

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Summary: An Inspiring Tale of Survival
Review: Steven Callahan's book, Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea is a remarkable retelling of his unimaginable ordeal on the Atlantic Ocean. Callahan retells his story in an exciting and gripping fashion. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The main point one gets out of this book is the power of the human spirit. Callahan fought against every problem and disaster with fierce determination. His determination saved his life, and truly is an inspiration to anyone who reads this novel. The novel made me consider how lucky we are to have the luxuries we have at our disposal. It's hard to fathom losing every luxury on the ocean except for your basic needs, food and water. Callahan has to deal with the torment of dying physically and mentally for seventy-six days alone. The book never gets repetitive; Callahan always captures the imagination with his different trials on the sea. It is an excellent read.

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Summary: An Inspiring Tale of Survival
Review: Steven Callahan's book, Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea is a remarkable retelling of his unimaginable ordeal on the Atlantic Ocean. Callahan retells his story in an exciting and gripping fashion. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The main point one gets out of this book is the power of the human spirit. Callahan fought against every problem and disaster with fierce determination. His determination saved his life, and truly is an inspiration to anyone who reads this novel. The novel made me consider how lucky we are to have the luxuries we have at our disposal. It's hard to fathom losing every luxury on the ocean except for your basic needs, food and water. Callahan has to deal with the torment of dying physically and mentally for seventy-six days alone. The book never gets repetitive; Callahan always captures the imagination with his different trials on the sea. It is an excellent read.

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Summary: Naval Aviation Water Survival Instructor's view
Review: Steven Callahan's story is masterfully told. This was a book I could not put down. As a Naval Water Survival Instructor the knowledge gain by his experience will help me to prepare others who may find themselves in like circumstance. Thank you Mr. Callahan.

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Summary: One mans epic battle with his sanity and a very lonely sea.
Review: Steven Callahan's story of sheer determination is one of the best survival tales since Swiss Family Robinson. I believe the book's most powerful asset lays within the nararation though, having the story told by the actual survivor gives the reader an extremely good feeling of what it was like on that small raft. The nararation also opens the mind of the author so the reader can experience first hand Callahan's struggle with sanity. The story starts in Callahan's boat as he attempts to sail around the whole world, alone. When disaster strikes Callahan's ever present knowledge of the sea is shown. Having grown up on a sailboat, one of my favorite features of the book is its vast variety of factual information pertaining to nautical exploration. Although the pictures were shown in rather awkward places at times (pages ahead of where they were to be talked about), they were extremely helpful and interesting as well. Overall I would say that Adrift by Steven Callahan is a great read. If you like stories of adventure, this is a dose and a half of pure survivalism, at its best. I feel that Callahan's story is so surreal that I could say that I might have serious reservations about actually going out on the open sea again, but not about picking up another book of this caliber.

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Summary: Compelling account of struggle and survival
Review: This book is a fascinating account of survival, which led me to question my own fitness for such a trial. The book is well written as a narrative taken from Callahan's logs, with much detail that places the reader in the raft with him. Whether Callahan experienced an 'epiphany' as another reviewer mentioned couldn't be more beside the point; this is a story of survival, not a meditation on spirituality.

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Summary: Read and keep in your library
Review: This book is as inspriing as it is graphic. Callahan provides a very verbose log of his fight to survive. In reading this book you definitely appreciate how remarkable a man he is and how much knowledge as a sea man he had to have in order to survive. Sometimes in reading a tale of survival it is possible to project yourself in the situation and imagine if you would fare as well as the author. After reading this tale, my response most certainly is that I would not. This doesn't make the tale any less exciting to read and gripping to imagine, it simply leads one to further appreciate the remarkable accomplishment of survival by a remarkable man.

This story has been presented on TV on Discovery or TLC as well and it is very interesting to get the detail offered in the book that wasn't provided in the TV story. Callahan provides some wonderful drawings and images in his book that add immeasurably to the work.

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Summary: Amazing Inner Strength to Endure
Review: This book is as inspriing as it is graphic. Callahan provides a very verbose log of his fight to survive. In reading this book you definitely appreciate how remarkable a man he is and how much knowledge as a sea man he had to have in order to survive. Sometimes in reading a tale of survival it is possible to project yourself in the situation and imagine if you would fare as well as the author. After reading this tale, my response most certainly is that I would not. This doesn't make the tale any less exciting to read and gripping to imagine, it simply leads one to further appreciate the remarkable accomplishment of survival by a remarkable man.

This story has been presented on TV on Discovery or TLC as well and it is very interesting to get the detail offered in the book that wasn't provided in the TV story. Callahan provides some wonderful drawings and images in his book that add immeasurably to the work.

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Summary: A wonderful book about surviving
Review: This book is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. The very brave struggle of a man who has to use his ultimate cleverness to survive. He discribes his feelings of loneliness in a very fine way. I've read it several times. In my opinion: a very good book.

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Summary: Adrift
Review: This book was an excellent, true story, adventure. This is an autobiography written by Steven Callahan. There was plenty of action with just the right amount of true facts. It was the type of story everyone wants to say,"ya i did that!" but, no one really wants to do it. It was well written with a lot of factual input that the narrator had either read or heard about on tis way around the atlantic in his sailbout beforehe went "Adrift." I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good adventure especially sailors. There were two things I did not like about the book. One, that he was adrift for seventy-six days, which it states on the cover of the book. When hope of rescue comes about and its not the 76th day, you know that there is still awhile before he is rescued. Another downfall were the pictures. I liked them a lot and thought they were vary helpful to decipher the things he was doing. The problem with them was that they where placed haphazardly throughout the book. You will see a picture and then a couple of pages later it will talk about the event in the picture, giving the story away. I definitely will give this book 5 stars.