Donald Crowhurst is a superb inventor with a failing enterprise. When he hears concerning the Golden Globe Race providing publicity and money to the quickest to sail world wide, it looks like the right resolution. Betting his enterprise and his dwelling on success, Crowhurst units off in a high-tech trimaran.
Quickly, the brutal Southern Ocean begins to look an excessive amount of for his boat. Alone at sea, below mounting strain, Crowhurst has a daring concept. If he radios in the proper coordinates, nobody must know he’s not the place he claims to be.
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Additional studying
The Sunday Instances journalists Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Corridor’s ebook is The Unusual Final Voyage of Donald Crowhurst. Nigel Tetley’s memoir is named Trimaran Solo. 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, and Stewart Model’s new ebook Upkeep: Of All the things..
