Download or read book Forty-Eight Days Adrift written by Job Barbour and published by [St. John's, Nfld.] : Breakwater Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Joe Barbour was born in Newton, Bonavista Bay, in 1898. He began sailing as a boy and at the age of twenty-one he first became master of a vessel. For many years he sailed the treacherous waters of Newfoundland's Northeast coast, carrying provisions from St. John's to the outports. In 1932, while on one of these voyages in his three mastered schooner, Neptune II, he was driven off course across the Atlantic to the coast of Scotland by several storms. His thrilling story is the subject of this book.