May 2011 Travel Book of the Month.
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. "One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read." (Sebastian Junger). 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. Only one of the nine crossed the finishing line after ten months at sea. The rest encountered despair, sublimity, madness and even death.
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.
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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.
A Voyage for Madmen features in the following genres: Travel, Biographies & Autobiographies, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Paperback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. In Stock.
A Voyage for Madmen was written by Peter Nichols and published by Profile Books Ltd
A Voyage for Madmen has 298 pages
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. In Stock.
