Adrift

Steven Callahan

The book I read over the summer was the novel Adrift. This book is an adventure novel that describes a mans fight against the elements after his boat crashes and he is forced into his life raft for 76 days. The rest of the novel describes how he finds different ways to eat, drink and survive.

I would strongly recommend this book for any reader but more so to people who enjoy adventure books. This book was great because it describes very in-depth how he finds ways to create his vital needs, One example is how he makes his own fresh water using sun stills. He describes how he catches his own fish and the ways he prepares his food so that is it safe to eat. Next he not only tells his readers how he survives but also gives points and tips on how he did things in case anybody who read the book were to find themselves in his situation. He does this by letting the readers know things he did wrong and how he would change them.

There were also a few flaws with Adrift, primarily the common theme that occurs page after page of Steven Callahan describing his every day experience that seems to be the same as the previous. This makes the read very slow at times and almost hard to compare one day from another. The next defect in the book is when he gets saved there is not as much happiness that would have been expected after his 76 day ordeal. This almost added a dampen to the build up the that single point and made me think that maybe some of his stories may not have been as accurate as once .

Overall this book was a good read and one that I would recommend to any reader.

By Nick Grundmann