Information about a book required

[JamesS]

During a recent Ray Mears survival programme, he spoke about a guy who spent 3 months afloat in a life raft.

In this guys grab bag he had a book about survival which I understand gave him great inspiration.

Any idea what it was called?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Dunno if it was the same book, but Frenchman Alain Bombard deliberately set himself adrift in a rubba dubba with no supplies to test out his survival theories, and crossed the Atlantic from Africa to the West Indies, surviving to write a book about it, called either 'The Voyage of the Heretique" or "Naufragé Volontaire".

 

[Guest]

It was probably "117 days adrift" by Maurice and Maralyn Bailey
Publisher: Nautical Books, an imprint of A&C Black, London
ISBN: 0-7136-5930-0
First published 1974

An absolute classic.

Should be easily able to pick it up in the marine bookshops and 2nd hand

I believe that this represents the longest time adrift so far and is likely to remain so now we have EPIRBs etc etc.

Best wishes
Andrew

 

[peterk]

Steve Callahan spent 76 days alone in a leaky liferaft
- wrote a great book about it: 'Adrift'

'Sea Survival' by Dougal Robertson may be the book you are looking for
Read his 'Survive the Savage Sea' also - in it he describes the
reason he wrote 'Sea Suvival'.

...might the book you saw on TV have been: 'sex and the single sailor'...?

peter
www.juprowa.com/kittel

 

[yoda]

James

I'm sure you are after 'Adrift' by Steve Callahan. I have read the book and saw the programme you refer to. All the other suggestions are also good reads.

Yoda