About this title: Nine people comprised of two Frenchmen, an Italian and six Englishmen, began the 1967 Golden Globe around the world yacht race. Only one completed the journey. This is the story of this endeavour. The goal was to sail around the world solo, a feat no one had yet achieved; to make matters just that extra bit tricky some of the sailors were total ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2001-06-01
ISBN-13:9780060197643ISBN:0060197641
Description: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate edgewear, light soiling. Price sticker on back of DJ. Hardcover shows light wear to edges, corners and spine tips. some soiling to edges of hardcover. Endpapers and pages are clean, no markings. Text block is slightly shaken, hinges are solid, pages are bound tight. Location: MBP. read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060957032ISBN:0060957034
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. bookstore stamp bottom edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2001-06-01
ISBN-13:9780060197643ISBN:0060197641
Description: Very Good. Hardback Edition, Tight Binding, Very Good Condition No Writing or Marks inside, Dust Jacket Good condition minor wear repaired tear on back. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 6/4/2002
ISBN-13:9780060957032ISBN:0060957034
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2002-06-01
ISBN-13:9780060957032ISBN:0060957034
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 6/1/2002
ISBN-13:9780060957032ISBN:0060957034
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060957032ISBN:0060957034
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"Though the story is intriguing - 9 idiots race around the world alone in sailboats - the resultant book is kind of dull. I'm not sure how you can make this story tiresome but Nichols seems to manage. Perhaps it's because he's English and while he notes the absurd nationalism driving the Brits to finish first - he leans on the elements of the story to propel the book instead of getting down to it with compelling language.
This book is not terrible - but I do not recommend it."
"Interesting account of a race around the world that gripped British newspaper readers in the 60's. A teenager wants to attempt a solo voyage at the moment. SO FOOLHARDY! Not only can the sea kill you, but you must be awake every other hour - which would hurt a child's physical development and the emotional lack of companionship can drive an adult to madness. What must her parents be thinking . . ."
"From a continent's beaches the ocean stretches beyond the edge of sight, but only to one horizon. Waves pound the shore but the ocean's terrors lurk quietly distant. But for millenia men have plied the seas in all manner of craft for all sorts of reasons, risking life, limb, and reason on journeys far from shore. This book recounts nine such journeys staged as a race sponsored by a news organization for the entertainment of the shore-bound popular imagination. Throughout these parallel accounts of solitary men at sea, land plays a bit part paralleling the existential challenge of the sea. Land is journey's end and its beginning. Land like space holds cognate challenges to the lone ocean adverturer - Everest, Arctic and Antarctic landscapes as well as reefs and rocks at turning points along the way. But chiefly the story's fascination is the men who attempted this journey to sail solo around the world without stop, resupply, or other support. The ocean too holds fascination in its depths though rarely do the waters part in these accounts. In perhaps the strangest glimpse beneath the waves - strange in the way of unexpected, wise, familiar - Nichols recounts at second hand a story of porpoises guiding one of the lone sailors (Montessier) clear of dangerous hidden shoals. Though seldom seen in these pages, the shared experience of life in the oceans that engulf earth's surface draws us to the sea as much as any contests of will with our own and mother nature."
"I enjoyed the first few chapters of this book. In fact, I have wanted to travel to India for years, and the first few chapters inspired me to finally book my trip. I knew my only chance of going to India in the next couple years would be to go by myself. I was slightly fearful of being alone in a foreign land, but this book turned me around. I realized that if 20-somethings could travel around the world via the seas and completely by themselves, with the possibility of confronting any number of problems, I realized I could travel to India by myself.
Unfortunately, the fire of the first few chapters didn't extend throughout. I am not familiar with sailing, so I found this book to be way too technical. I think this book will connect to such a small audience due to the author's constant mention of parts of the boat, latitude/longitude, and so on. I was hoping more for the human experience, but I wasn't pulled in and had to push myself to finish a book I thought I was going to end up loving."
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