A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ...

Name: A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ...
Brand: Profile Books
SKU: 9781861974655-G
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By Peter Nichols

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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 a Italian set out to try a race born of coincidence of their timing. They weren't sportsmen or yachtsmen one didn't even know how to sail. They had more in common with Captain Cook or Ferdinand Magellan than with the high-tech cyber-fed sailors of today a mere thirty 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 death.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 320
Release Date:: 2002-05-16
Publication Date:: 2002-05-16
Publisher:: Profile Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1861974655
Weight:: 232 g
Height:: 19.8 cm
Width:: 12.9 cm
Thickness:: 2.1 cm

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