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A Voyage For Madmen
- Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ...
Engelsk Paperback
A Voyage For Madmen
- Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ...
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781846684432
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1846684439
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Udg. Dato:
5 maj 2011
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
134mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
5 maj 2011
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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