A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols
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, 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.
Told with verve and riddled with the drama of being overwhelmed by the sheer bloody-mindedness of the sea itselfDelivering shiploads of tension, Nichols makes sure we feel the loneliness, pain and struggle. You can smell the salty air and feel the spray on every page * Sunday Times *
Peter Nichols has been a professional sailor, a yachtie, and a Hollywood scriptwriter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781861974655 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861974655 |
| Title | A Voyage For Madmen |
| Author | Peter Nichols |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2001 |
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