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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Ron Hall, Nicholas Tomalin (Paperback, 2003)
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In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set out from England in his untested trimaran, a competitor in the first singlehanded nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, the boat was found in a calm mid-Atlantic, structurally intact with no one on board. Through Crowhurst's logs and diaries the world learned that, although he had radioed messages from his supposed round-the-world course, he had in fact never left the Atlantic. In this journalistic masterpiece, Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall reconstruct what happened: Crowhurst's growing distrust of his boat; his decision to attempt one of the greatest hoaxes of our time; his eleven-week radio silence; the secret visit to Argentina for repairs; the lying radio transmissions; the triumphal return up the Atlantic as the elapsed-time race leader; the increasing isolation wrought by his deception; and the fantastic ending. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is both a suspenseful narrative and a psychological casebook of human zeal and anguish. Finally, it takes us to the heart of darkness. This book was originally published in 1970. Heavily publicized in major media (including The New York Times and two U.S. television networks), it was a bestseller, and it left a lasting impression. International Marine issued a trade paperback edition in 1995. The Sailor's Classics would be incomplete without it. Raban's introduction to our Sailor's Classics edition offers an alternative interpretation of Crowhurst's demise. Tomalin and Hall thought that Crowhurst's madness was one of despair. Raban suggests that it might have been the dizzy elation of the manic. Drifting around in the South Atlantic, Crowhurst, a failed businessman, saw himself as Einstein's equal - a man who'd found the Truth at sea. When he stepped off his boat, carrying the ship's clock and his faked logbooks, he may actually have expected to walk on water. The Crowhurst story has a haunting life of its own, and Crowhurst lives on, perversely, as a mythic hero, inspiring the Robert Stone bestseller Outerbridge Reach, a one-man opera called Ravenshead, a string of radio and TV programs, a rumored film in the making, and a new nonfiction account of that long-ago race, A Voyage for Madmen, written by Peter Nichols (author of Sea Change).Product Identifiers
PublisherMcgraw-Hill Education
ISBN-139780071414296
eBay Product ID (ePID)91346163
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
AuthorRon Hall, Nicholas Tomalin
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeography & Geosciences
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories, Sports
Number of Pages304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorNicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall
Series TitleSailor's Classics S.
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 28 Jan, 2021
A compelling read from start to finish, better than the film!
Excellent condition paperback, riveting account of Donald Crowhurst's 1968 failed attempt to win the first nonstop single-handed round the world sail boat race . After watching the film on TV during the pandemic lock-down we ordered the book and it certainly filled in the gaps the film leaves. It is a real "how is he going to resolve that", "then what happens", etc. etc. It not only serves as a witness to the physical challenge but the mental drain and personality you would need to achieve the end you want.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
