Robertson, Dougal,
SURVIVE THE SAVAGE SEA.
Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 223pp, half tone photo ills., line drawings, facsimiles and map in text, coloured pictorial wrappers, In June 1972, in a remote part of the Pacific, the 43-foot schooner Lucette was attacked by killer whales and sank in 60 seconds. In an inflatable rubber raft, with a 9-foot fiberglass dinghy to tow it, Dougal Robertson and his family were miles from any shipping lanes. They had emergency rations for only three days and no maps, compass, or instruments of any kind. After their raft sank under them, they crammed themselves into their tiny dinghy and for 37 days they battled against 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, and exhaustion, adrift in the vast reaches of the Pacific before their ordeal was ended by a Japanese fishing boat, lightly rubbed at tips, edges a little tanned, very good plus,
A Book for all Reasons
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