The Godforsaken Sea - Lundy, Derek
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Account of the 1996-97 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race - interviews with the sailors, intercut with descriptions of meteorology and physics of the sea. It covers how we are drawn to the sea and how it repels us, how storms are born, architecture of boats and why people risk their lives to sail.
On 3 November 1996 sixteen sailors set out from the Bay of Biscay to embark on the Vendee Globe - a single-handed yacht race through the world's most treacherous and isolated seas. Of the sixteen starters only six completed the course, six others withdrew, three were plucked from sinking boats and one disappeared. This book deals with this race.…mehr

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Account of the 1996-97 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race - interviews with the sailors, intercut with descriptions of meteorology and physics of the sea. It covers how we are drawn to the sea and how it repels us, how storms are born, architecture of boats and why people risk their lives to sail.
On 3 November 1996 sixteen sailors set out from the Bay of Biscay to embark on the Vendee Globe - a single-handed yacht race through the world's most treacherous and isolated seas. Of the sixteen starters only six completed the course, six others withdrew, three were plucked from sinking boats and one disappeared. This book deals with this race.
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Autorenporträt
Derek Lundy is the author of six books. He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.