The Raft Author:Robert Trumbull For thirty-four scorching days and shivering nights the three ditched Navy flyers--three men on a rubber raft four feet by eight--braved constant perils in the middle of the mighty Pacific. Gigantic waves swept over them. M an-eating sharks besieged them. Hunger and thirst grew stronger by the hour. They had no water, no food, no compass, no p... more »addles. Yet by heroic endurance unsurpassed in modern sea history they steered their way to safety and deliverance.« less