48 Days to Barbados

In 1999, 28-year-old Karson Brown and her best friend embarked on a simple journey: they were going to help a woman they'd never met navigate her thirty-four-foot sailboat from Portugal to Ft. Lauderdale. Their three-week adventure crossing the Atlantic quickly became a fight for survival as contaminated water, a dead engine, and depleted provisions during hurricane-season winds threatened their very lives.

In this breathtaking memoir, Brown takes readers on a forty-eight day journey across ...