Forty-Eight Days Adrift

by Job Barbour and Captain Job Barbour

Captain Joe Barbour was born in Newton, Bonavista Bay, in 1898. He began sailing as a boy and at the age of twenty-one he first became master of a vessel. For many years he sailed the treacherous waters of Newfoundland's Northeast coast, carrying provisions from St. John's to the outports. In 1932, while on one of these voyages in his three mastered schooner, Neptune II, he was driven off course across the Atlantic to the coast of Scotland by several...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0919519334
• ISBN13: 9780919519336
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Riveting True Story of survival at Sea

The Newfoundlanders in this book show the intelligence, determination, and resourcefulness of these island people. Once you start this book you can't put it down. All those that love the sea will enjoy this book. The North Atlantic can be very unfriendly and you really get to see it first hand here. It is hard to believe that people can over come such hardships and battle 'mother nature,' but step by step we see it here. Great reading.