Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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Having at least a passing knowledge of nautical terms is helpful when reading this book but not necessary. Callahan does a great job at making his narrative relatable to most people. This book is part memoir, part survival guide, and part contemplation on life. The technical descriptions and diagrams are balanced out by his lyrical writing style. It was a little odd at first that it was written in present tense, but it made the story come alive. I could hardly put it down. From the moments that made me laugh to the moments that made my eyes sting to the moments that made me reflect inwards, this book is truly a treasure. And Callahan tells it with a poetic profundity. I think this book did a great job describing how plastic is affecting our beaches and oceans/seas and various other types of bodies of water. While this book focused primarily on the Tokyo Express and it's LEGO container that went overboard, I thought it was interesting to read about the types of water currents, the types of pieces beachcombers have found, and even talked about the initiatives that LEGO is doing to be more eco-friendly.

Listing of available speakers", Cruising World, 2003-12-22, archived from the original on 2007-10-06 , retrieved 2007-08-15 Callahan, Steven (1987-02-01), "A Sea So Great, A Raft So Small", The New York Times , retrieved 2007-08-16 Two weeks into their last voyage together....Tahiti to San Diego, they met up with catastrophic hurricane Raymond, and ADRIFT is Tami's emotional story of loss and survival. The author touches on a variety of topics, such as education, income inequality, healthcare, and more. For each chart, he writes a paragraph or so describing it. I would have preferred a more in-depth l

First of all this is about survival on the sea but it is indeed more an emotional story cause this lady had enough supplies to last her for a long time.

She told the San Diego Union Tribune she saw “a guy outside on a boat looking through a porthole...It was blurry. I saw Tami and she had something red on her head - a gash.”

For the next few days she got her bearings and rigged her sail to get herself in position so she could use currents she hoped would take her to Hawaii. From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation - and how we got here.

Part of her ability to ‘move on’ was thanks to writing her story down. She never underwent counselling saying “no one ever suggested it” though she was left wishing someone had. “I definitely had some severe post-traumatic stress syndrome,” she said. “I really wish I had taken the time to do that”. As I turn on my computer one night, there's a message waiting for me. It's from a trawler fisherman. 'Found this chap last trip. He's 'armless, so won't bite.' In the accompanying picture is a sea-weary Lego man, missing an arm and his legs, the letters 'TV' on his chest.The book itself reads something like a memoir and a conservation story. Williams retells the story of the Tokio Express, the millions of Legos it lost into the sea and how those Legos are still washing up on beaches over 20 years later. That alone is a fascinating story but Williams goes further to frame this within the larger crisis of plastic pollution and includes the history of other plastic bits found on shorelines.