Close to the Wind - Brossura

Goss, Pete

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0786707410 ISBN 13: 9780786707416

Casa editrice: Da Capo Pr, 2000

Riassunto

On November 3, 1996, former Royal Marine Pete Goss embarked on the most grueling competition in his sailing career: the Vendée Globe, a nonstop, single-handed round-the-world yacht race. For the next seven weeks he met every challenge in his stormy path, from combating waves the height of six-story buildings to grappling with his spinnaker in high winds. Then everything began going wrong: His sails were destroyed, his navigation equipment proved useless. And on Christmas Day his radio picked up a Mayday that a French competitor was sinking 160 miles away. Turning into the hurricane-force winds, Goss set out to rescue a near-dead man on a life raft somewhere in the vast wilderness of the merciless southern ocean. How he did it makes this extraordinary tale as amazing as it is thrilling.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Da Capo Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0786707410
• ISBN 13: 9780786707416
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288