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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 nonstop.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 the 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 fron 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.
A longtime blue water sailor,and author of the critically acclaimed memoir 'Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat', Peter Nichols draw together the threads of this story with a novelist's eye for detail and character and shows how these single-handers in their puny and inadequate boats undertook the last great maritime feat,and how,one by one,the sea cut them down.
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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 nonstop.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 the 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 fron 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.
A longtime blue water sailor,and author of the critically acclaimed memoir 'Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat', Peter Nichols draw together the threads of this story with a novelist's eye for detail and character and shows how these single-handers in their puny and inadequate boats undertook the last great maritime feat,and how,one by one,the sea cut them down.
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