The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early
months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one
hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg
tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four
lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard
from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with
a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only
one would survive. This is his story. As they started their nine
days adrift more than four hundred miles off Newfoundland, the
castaways--an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and
her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen,
including Thomas W. Nye from Bedford, Massachusetts--began fighting
over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died.
Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only
Nye and his journal survived. Using Nye's journal and his later
newspaper accounts, ship's logs, assorted diaries, and family
archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that
thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic sea. In
the tradition of bestsellers such as Into Thin Air and In the Heart
of the Sea, Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits,
where every frantic decision and every desperate act is a potential
life saver or life taker
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