Adrift And At Anchor

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Excerpt from Adrift and at Anchor: A Sailor's Experience Among Sea Dogs and Land Sharks; With an Account of His Conversion and Labors as a Missionary Among Seamen Story; the exciting scenes incident to a sailor's life, as they actually occurred - and, moreover, to acknowledge the merciful dealings of a kind Providence, in leading him, when in the broad way to destruction, to see himself as a lost sinner, and to lay hold upon the Hope set before him in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And his prayer is that those who are yet without this Hope, upon reading this, the experience of one who had wandered far in the downward path, may be led to consider upon the error of their ways, and to' turn unto Him who is ablex and willing to save ali} who call upon Him; and that those who are laboring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

From the time Cary Lawson steps off the ship in Spain, she feels that she belongs in Europe, that through this new experience she will be able to come to terms with her true self and become a person in her own right. As spectator and involuntary participant in the dramatic events taking place in the late 1960s in Italy, Cary is caught up in the problematic day to day lives of her friends and her lover, Gianni. She slowly discovers that beside the beauty of the country and the lovely language she learns to speak, there is a dark side as well. Cary's new certainties become uncertainties again when her world is turned upside down and she has to draw on all her inner resources to deal with an unexpected and tragic situation.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.

First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt’s cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist—an “alarmingly serious person”—joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group’s harmony starts disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.