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Title: Close to the Wind
Condition: New
Subtitle: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity
Author: Pete Goss
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0747259380
EAN: 9780747259381
ISBN: 9780747259381
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Genre: Sports & Hobbies
Topic: Biography
Release Date: 03/06/1999
Description: Pete Goss became a national and international hero when he rescued French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli as his boat sank beneath him in the round-the-world single-handed sailing race, the Vendee Globe, on Christmas Day 1996. In doing so Pete scuppered his own chances in the race but was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by France's president and made a friend for life in Dinelli. Close to the Wind is his own story of the race and its dramas, his revolutionary boat, Aqua Quorum, his thoughts and emotions during four months of solitude at sea, the extraordinary surgery that he had to perform on his own elbow and the aftermath of the rescue in the Southern Ocean.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 178mm
Item Length: 110mm
Item Width: 24mm
Item Weight: 217g
Release Year: 1999

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