A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Profile Books
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 978-1846684432
Description:
A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back
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.