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Revised 4th printing 1995. SURVIVOR: Boat disaster anthology/manual edited by the world's two best known castaways: Steve Callahan (Adrift) & Dougal Robertson (Survive the Savage Sea). Caught in the eye of a hurricane; disaster in the night; attacked by killer whales; shipwrecked on an Alaskan island in winter; stories of the struggle for life in tiny survival craft; cast up on an uninhabited atoll; stark photos of castaways, daring rescues & scenes of disaster. Contains a wealth of survival lore: Choreography of Disaster, The Will to Survive, About Survival Craft, Adrift on the Tropic Seas, How to Abandon Ship, Survival Fishing, Emergency Food & Water, Disaster in Cold Weather, Man Overboard, Marooned, The Survival Pack, About Sharks, Search & Rescue, Emergency Medicine for Castaways. Standard issue aboard U.S. flag vessels. "Man's struggles against the sea chronicled in true & amazing stories of survival, rescues, tragic failures, interspersed with facts & information on how to survive a marine disaster...It's hard to put this book down.--(Crusing World). Blue Horizons Press, Box 60778, San Diego, Ca 92166, ([19) 222-8245, FAX (619) 226-6888.Greenwald, Michael is the author of 'Survivor', published 1989 under ISBN 9780931297038 and ISBN 0931297036.
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