num_pages: 256
description: The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs, as well as overwhelming fatigue and loneliness. Then, nearing the finish, Moitessier pulled out of the race and sailed on for another three months before ending his 37,455-mile journey in Tahiti. Not once had he touched land.
language: English
title: The Long Way
titlecomplete: The Long Way
genres: Sports, History, Adventure, Memoir, Maritime, Outdoors, Biography Memoir, Travel, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2749
publisher: Sheridan House