Description
| Product ID: | 9781846684432 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Voyage For Madmen |
| Subtitle: | Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ... |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Nichols |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Sporting events and management, Sporting events & management, Sailing / yachting, Travel writing, Sailing, Travel writing, c 1960 to c 1970 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. This is a true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe sailing race: the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world. Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race''s 50th AnniversaryIt 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-05-05 |
