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A voyage for madmen

Author: Peter Nichols
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"On April 22, 1969 the world watched as a small sailboat came ashore at Falmouth, England, completing a voyage of astonishing courage and endurance that would forever alter our ongoing adventure with the sea. Ten months earlier, nine very different men had set off in small and ill-equipped boats, determined to do the impossible, sail around the world alone and without stopping, to win the race dubbed the Golden  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Nichols
ISBN: 0060197641 9780060197643 0060957034 9780060957032
OCLC Number: 45100240
Description: xiv, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Peter Nichols.
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The true story of the 1968 oceanic adventure of nine sailors who set off in a race to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop--something that had never been done before--and their obsessive  Read more...

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"Extraordinary ...One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read."--Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

 
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