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9780071414296

The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

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  • ISBN13:

    9780071414296

  • ISBN10:

    0071414290

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-05-21
  • Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Summary

The Sailor's Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sailIn the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from England to participate in the first single-handed nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, his boat was found in the mid-Atlantic, intact but with no one on board. In this gripping reconstruction, journalists Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall tell the story of Crowhurst's ill-fated voyage.

Author Biography

Nicholas Tomalin was literary editor for the New Stateman and a featured columnist for the Daily Express, the Sunday Times, and the Evening Standard of London. He was nominated Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the war in Vietnam.

Ron Hall is a leading British journalist. He was cofounder of the Sunday Times' (London) "Insight," where he was editor from 1964 - 66, and he became joint managing editor of the Sunday Times in 1969.

Jonathan Raban is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the editor of The Oxford Book of the Sea, and author of ten critically acclaimed books, including Passage to Juneau. He is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Heinemann Award for Literature, and received the New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year for Old Glory and Bad Land. He has been called (by The Guardian) "the finest writer afloat since Conrad."

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jonathan Raban

Authors' Preface

Prologue

One. The Bravest Boy of Them All

Two. The Great Race

Three. The Revolutionary Boat

Four. The Maiden Voyage

Five. Teignmouth

Six. The Last Letter

Seven. The First Two Weeks at Sea

Eight. Two Conflicting Testimonies

Nine. The Fraudulent Record

Ten. The Plan

Eleven. Christmas

Twelve. Silence and Loneliness

Thirteen. The Secret Landing

Fourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"

Fifteen. Midnight Oil

Sixteen. Win or Lose?

Seventeen. The Inescapable Triumph

Eighteen. Into the Dark Tunnel

Nineteen. The Cosmic Mind

Twenty. The Great Beauty of Truth

Epilogue. And the World Said . . .

Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's Navigation

Appendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth Electron

Appendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. Newick

Afterword by Robin Knox-Johnston

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