In this episode Matt Crawford speaks to author and journalist Brian Murphy about his book Adrift. The story of the John Rutledge packet ship making the journey from Liverpool to New York in the winter of 1856 in a sea packed with ice. No modern communication and low visibility put this ship on a collision course with fate. An amazing story of survival and the struggle to retain ones humanity and morality at the most trying of times. Brian Murphy puts you aboard the Rutledge with compassion and prose.