A Voyage For Madmen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: May 22, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060197643
First sentence: IN 1966-1967, A 65-YEAR-OLD ENGLISHMAN, Francis Chichester, sailed alone around the world.
Description: "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 Globe."--Jacket.