IRB Introduction Post #1: Adrift by Steven Callahan

For my first IRB selection, I have decided to read the New York Times Bestseller, Adrift written by Steven Callahan. The story begins with Callahan's anticipated trip to travel the Atlantic Ocean on the boat he built; however, he soon found himself without a boat when his sank in a powerful storm. This memoir is about the seventy-six days that Callahan spent stranded on a small life raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and how he struggled for over a month to survive without any food or water. I never heard of this book until I was looking on the website Shelfari, and through recommendations of the previous books I have read, I was introduced to this bestseller. This book caught my eye because of the title's simplicity "Adrift" and also illustration on front; therefore, after reading a synopsis of it I believed it would be an appropriate book for a nonfiction IRB.The purpose of the story is to entertain and also inform the reader of Callahan's survival story and how he used every single of his instincts to survive when everyone else would have expected him to die. I have read books similar to "Adrift" such as Alive, which was one of the most interesting books I have ever read because the author, Piers Paul Read, did a fabulous job making the story easy for the reader to visualize. Similar to "Alive", I hope that "Adrift" is an intriguing story that shows the determination of Steve Callahan throughout the memoir and how he would do anything to save his own life. I have also always found it interesting to read about individuals who were forced to survive in dreadful circumstances, and how they persevered through the unforgiving environments they were expected to die in.