Publisher's Synopsis
For four French expatriates who escaped the clutches of the Nazi regime to find asylum in Canada, adventure was to be the antidote to depression brought on by the cruelty of war. In 1956, armed with nothing but the flannel on their backs, a small stock of food, and some crude navigation and communication equipment, the quartet set sail from Halifax. Their goal: become the first crew to cross the Atlantic by raft. Fashioned from telephone poles and built entirely by hand, the raft they called L'Egare II would be their home for 88 harrowing days as they crossed the North Atlantic from Canada to Britain. And they made it! In 'The Raftsmen', Barnett and comic illustrator Dmitry Bondarenko explore the adventure-fuelled men aboard the L'Egare II, and the complex emotional undercurrents that led to their daredevil voyage.
