num_pages: 317
description: In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set out from England in his untested trimaran, a competitor in the first singlehanded nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, the boat was found in mid-Atlantic with no one on board. Crowhurst's logs and diaries revealed that, although he had radioed messages from his supposed round-the-world course, he had in fact never left the Atlantic. This journalistic masterpiece reconstructs what Crowhurst's growing distrust of his boat; his first decision to attempt one of the great hoaxes of our time; the lying radio transmissions; the ``triumphal'' return up the Atlantic as the elapsed-time race leader; and the fantastic ending. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is both a suspenseful narrative and a psychological casebook of human zeal and anguish.
language: English
title: The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
titlecomplete: The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
genres: Biography, Psychology, Historical, Adventure, Maritime, Nonfiction, 20th Century, Outdoors, Travel, History
ratings_count: 1460
publisher: Stein & Day Paperback