A Voyage For Madmen

Name: A Voyage For Madmen
Brand: Profile Books Ltd
SKU: 9781846684432-V
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By Peter Nichols

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Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th Anniversary It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didn't even know how to sail. They had more in common with Captain Cook or Ferdinand Magellan than with the high-tech, extreme sailors of today, a mere forty years later. It was not the sea or the weather that determined the nature of their voyages but the men they were, and they were as different from one another as Scott from Amundsen. Only one of the nine crossed the finishing line after ten months at sea. The rest encountered despair, sublimity, madness and even death.

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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 320
Publisher:: Profile Books Ltd
Publication Date:: 2011-05-05
ISBN / EAN:: 9781846684432
Weight:: 329 g
Dimensions:: 13/20/3 cm

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