On the night of January 19, 1982, Stephen Callahan raised the sails on his small yacht, heading from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean Sea. This was the beginning of the most astonishing voyage of our century, one of the greatest maritime adventures of all time.
Six days later, his yacht sank, and Callahan was left in the middle of the Atlantic, drifting on a life raft—an inflatable raft just over a meter and a half across—driven by waves and winds. He had with him only about a kilogram of food and four liters of fresh water. This book is a captivating account by the author—the only person in the history of seafaring who spent more than two months alone on a drifting ocean raft and managed to survive.
It’s a story of fear and despair, heroism and hope… The tale of a wanderer who learned the bleak abysses of the universe and the human soul—and returned from there to tell of his extraordinary adventures.