Black sails white rabbits
Subtitle: cancer was the easy part
By: Kevin A. Hall
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781518809880
Subjects: Sailors; Olympic athletes; Manic-depressive persons; Biography; Yachting
Other titles: Cancer was the easy part
Notes: Kevin A. Hall is an Ivy League graduate of Brown University, where he earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and French literature. Despite being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1989, he went on to become a world-champion Olympic sailor, as well as racing navigator for Emirates Team New Zealand in the 2007 America's Cup match. A two-time testicular cancer survivor, Hall has spent a successful twenty-five years as a racing navigator, speed testing manager, and sailing performance and racing instruments expert. A brief version of his story was featured in Joel and Ian Gold's book Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness, as the only nonanonymous case study of a patient with Truman Show delusion. Hall currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with his wife and their three children.