Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea
Adrift (subtitle: 76 Days Lost At Sea) is a 1986 memoir by Steven Callahan about his survival in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, which lasted 76 days, a staggering ordeal alone at sea in an inflatable raft.
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