Survive the Savage Sea is a story of the author's experiences surviving at sea with his family when his yacht sunk in the Pacific Ocean on June 15th, 1972. With his wife, his three sons and a student they'd taken onboard, Dougal Robertson has to fight his way in an environment that has had hundreds of years to adapt.
The tale is told in striking detail and with brutal honesty that leaves the reader absolutely no room to doubt the authenticity. As you read, you find it hard to believe that so much could happen in such a short period of time and you just pray that they don't come up against yet another hurdle. With each new day, you can just see them all get weaker and weaker and it's astonishing that they could still find the energy to push on in search of land after one week, two weeks, three and then four weeks at sea.
A sea story told with very little boating garb, Survive the Savage Sea is a serious story of a family's will to "get these boys to land." I would definitely recommend it to anyone with a love of adventure mixed with harsh reality.
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