Godforsaken Sea The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters

Name: Godforsaken Sea The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
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ISBN: 9780385720007

ISBN-10: 0385720009

ISBN-13: 9780385720007

Edition: N/A

Authors: Derek Lundy

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"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--. Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."--San Francisco Chronicle A chilling account of the world's most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe, Godforsaken Sea is at once a hair-raising adventure story, a graceful evocation of the sailing life, and a thoughtful meditation on danger and those who seek it. This is the story of the 1996-1997 Vendée Globe, a solo sailing race that binds its competitors to just a few, cruelly simple rules: around the world from France by way of Antarctica, no help, no stopping, one boat, one sailor. The majority of the…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/6/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Derek Lundy is the bestselling author of The Way of a Ship and Godforsaken Sea. He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.