Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea

TRUELY EXCELLENT

The whole book can be summarised as "meh". It starts out promising, and then devolves into a very small set of repetitious cycles before ending abruptly. The whole feel of the book is more of a book-signing enterprise than a genuine attempt to tell a tale of great survival. After having read reviews on goodreads,com (which I will never recommend again), I had gone ahead and purchased this book. Very disappointed.

Kept me glued to it. Really amazing insight into human nature. Amazing the difficulty he was able to overcome and great insight into life itself.

First off I have to say the author wasn’t really “lost” at sea. His abilities and skills coupled with the mindset and tenacity to survive kept him more than just alive. At times he seemed to thrive. His ordeal made me think often of the phrase “hope is not a good plan”. One has to have a plan and work the plan to survive. Steven does this (not giving anything away here as it’s evident he makes it through) and gains a deeper appreciation for all the blessings we take for granted.A line from the book states “Before this voyage, I always had what I needed - food, shelter, clothing, and companionship - yet I was often dissatisfied when I didn’t get everything I wanted, when people didn’t meet my expectations, when a goal was thwarted, or I couldn’t acquire some material goody. My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind.”I was enthused and happy when he ended his journey. The reader will definitely feel as if they too are in the survival raft. Many of the critical reviews cite the repetition and down trodden feel of the book. Well the guy was stuck in the middle of the ocean for over two months alone. Many of us couldn’t go over two weeks without a cell phone.The book also gives us a great description of who and what he encounters after he ends his time adrift. It’s also very interesting to read this book in present time and realize the author is now 71 years old and end through all this in 1981. Worth a read if you want to learn more about what man is capable of and how blessed your life itself might be.

Acho que ele poderia ter abordado por outro ângulo. Se prende apenas nas tarefas que tinha diariamente

A very engaging read about staying in command of self in the face of absolute uncertainty. I liked how the author, Steven Callahan, focussed on the positive attitude of how he kept himself going, how he forced himself to keep working at finding solutions instead of dwelling on his fears. I'm sure that the fear factors of large fish and rogue waves would have been enough to have caused another sailor to panic and make mistakes that lead to disaster.Great book, I read it in one sitting - couldn't put it down - if you are looking for something to take you away from your everyday life for a while, and plunge you into the depths of the sea, then this book won't let you down.

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