Love your cruises? Do not read this post about dramatic sea voyages!

Kate Christensen, 

author of the upcoming

The Last Cruise, 

recommends these dramatic 

real-life ocean perils:

Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat by Peter Nichols

A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea by David Vann 

In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea 

by Steven Callahan

Click here to see the whole interview 

with Kate Christensen