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A Voyage for Madmen


A Voyage for Madmen
A Voyage for Madmen
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Издательство: Profile Books
Автор: Nichols Peter
Год выпуска: 2011
Страниц: 298
Тип обложки: обл - мягкий переплет (крепление скрепкой или клеем)
Иллюстрации: Черно-белые
Масса: 308 г
Размеры: 197x129x25 мм
Наличие: На складе
Already a classic among sailors, Nichols tell the true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe sailing race: the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world. 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. 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.




 
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