Overview

After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, and rations for only three days, they used every survival technique they could as they battled 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, and exhaustion.

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An incredible, harrowing, understated, true and moving story of human endurance and the will to survive . . .

...[a] well-written account...an unexpectedly personal view of a man's physical and a woman's emotional courage that, when bonded, produced the strength to survive. Sailing For stark excitement, marine natural history, practical lessons, and human love and stresses, few records, if any, of hazard and survival have ever bettered it. Washington Post Book World [The Robertsons] survived and their tale is a triumph of human resource and determination against terrible odds. Cruising World What a brave man, what an eloquent writer! In case of shipwreck I would send for Dougal Robertson or, in absence of him, reread his book in order to find out what on earth to do next. -- Nicholas Monsarrat

Author Information

Dougal Robertson was born in Scotland in 1924 and spent the war in the Merchant Marine. He and his wife Lyn lived on a farm in England for a number of years before deciding to go on a circumnavigation with their children. They now live in France.

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