Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It
Written by Toula Vlahou and Brian Murphy
Narrated by Dan Woren
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death
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 Fairhaven, 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 the ship's log survived.
Using Nye's firsthand descriptions and 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. Adrift brings listeners to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and desperate act is a potential life saver or life taker.
Related to Adrift
Related audiobooks
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fast Fades The Beauteous Shore Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDark Descent Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAtlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Alfred Lansing's Endurance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Iceberg, Right Ahead!: The Tragedy of the Titanic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What Are the Chances?: Why We Believe in Luck Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ships from History: A Brief Historic Overview of the Mayflower and the Titanic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGreat Adventurers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5What If...? Vol 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great Inventors and Their Inventions Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Age of Exploration: Totally Getting Lost Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
History For You
Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Razorblade Tears: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Story of Art Without Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Small Mercies: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Palestine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lafayette in the Somewhat United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An American Marriage: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book of Five Rings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret History of the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Adrift
0 ratings0 reviews