A Voyage For Madmen“An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read.” — Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm In the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, comes a breathtaking oceanic adventure about an obsessive desire to test the limits of human endurance. In 1968 nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held and never before completed: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death. Gorgeously written and meticulously researched by author Peter Nichols, this extraordinary book chronicles the contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms, and of those riveting moments when a decision means the difference between life and death. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Section 2 | 19 |
Section 3 | 27 |
Section 4 | 39 |
Section 5 | 45 |
Section 6 | 59 |
Section 7 | 65 |
Section 8 | 75 |
Section 20 | 185 |
Section 21 | 193 |
Section 22 | 205 |
Section 23 | 213 |
Section 24 | 219 |
Section 25 | 229 |
Section 26 | 235 |
Section 27 | 247 |
Section 9 | 83 |
Section 10 | 87 |
Section 11 | 101 |
Section 12 | 111 |
Section 13 | 123 |
Section 14 | 133 |
Section 15 | 139 |
Section 16 | 147 |
Section 17 | 155 |
Section 18 | 163 |
Section 19 | 179 |
Section 28 | 255 |
Section 29 | 261 |
Section 30 | 265 |
Section 31 | 275 |
Section 32 | 281 |
Section 33 | 285 |
Section 34 | 291 |
Section 35 | 295 |
Section 36 | 297 |