Man on a Raft: Fifty Days Adrift at Sea

by Kenneth Cooke

Man on a Raft also entitled What Cares the Sea? and first published in 1960, is a gripping true account of survival (and death) at sea. Following the 1943 sinking of the merchant ship S.S. Lulworth Hill in the south Atlantic by Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci , 14 men, including the author, gather on a small liferaft. The men attempt to reach the African coast, but intense sun, starvation, sharks, injuries and madness begin to take their toll...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1507819269
• ISBN13: 9781507819265
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"