Who would be the first to sail continuous all over the world? In 1968, The Sunday Occasions broadcasts a trophy and a money prize for the winner, and the Golden Globe Race is on. Main the cost are Robin Knox-Johnston, an old school British patriot, and Bernard Moitessier, an enigmatic French thinker. As monstrous seas and lethal gales shut in, the distinction between victory and catastrophe will come right down to only one phrase.
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Additional studying
Stewart Model’s new ebook is Upkeep: Of The whole lot. Robin Knox-Johnston provides his account of his voyage in A World of My Personal, and Bernard Moitessier tells his story in The Lengthy Means. Our two scripts on the Golden Globe race additionally relied on the books A Race Too Far by Chris Eakin, and A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols.
