title: Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
author:  Steven Callahan 
description: IMES besteller, this true story tells the riveting, first-hand account of the only man in history to have survived more than a month alone at sea,fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. Racked by hunger, buffeted by storms, and broiled by the tropical sun, Steven Callahan drifted over eighteen hundred miles of ocean, fighting off sharks with a makeshift spear, and watching nine ships pass by without turning back. Here is a story of anguish and horror, of undying heroism, hope--and survival.
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  Chapter 1
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  Jack Dalton hitched his seabag up on his shoulder. His uninjured shoulder,
  the one that wouldn’t let him down. On the elevator door in front of him,
  some college banana with more sense of humor than respect for university
  property had slapped a bumper sticker: Montana, the Last,
  Best Place
  … to Hide.
  Jack’s mouth quirked. Funny. And fitting. Not that Jack was hiding,
  whatever the old man accused him of. Drifting, maybe, but not hiding.
  He prowled toward the stairs. The habits of physical conditioning were
  hard to break. And even the navy docs admitted there was nothing wrong
  with his legs. He could still climb to the lab before the elevator descended to
  the science building lobby. He could still run six miles in thirty-nine minutes
  or less. He could still stand for three hours in fifty-degree seawater without
  dropping or complaining.
  What he couldn’t do anymore was swim.
  What he couldn’t be anymore was a U.S. Navy SEA