The strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0006YDBR4 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 348 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Makes fascinating sense of Crowhurst's madness." -- Sailing"One of the most extraordinary stories about the sea ever to be published." -- The Washington Post"The authors have endeavored here to tell the whole story of Donald Crowhurst, and they have written a masterpiece." -- The New Yorker"The sea drama of the century." -- Sir Francis Chichester
Eight months later, the boat was found in mid-Atlantic with no one on board. Crowhurst's logs and diaries revealed that, although he had radioed messages from his supposed round-the-world course, he had in fact never left the Atlantic. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is both a suspenseful narrative and a psychological casebook of human zeal and anguish.. This journalistic masterpiece reconstructs what happened: Crowhurst's growing distrust of his boat; his first decision to attempt one of the great hoaxes of our time; the lying radio transmissions; the ``triumphal'' return up the Atlantic as the elapsed-time race leader; and the fantastic ending. 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
Elizabeth Clare said Deeply thought-provoking and disturbing tale of human nature. In 1968, a London newspaper, inspired by recent feats of daring in the world of sailing, sponsored a contest that offered a trophy and large cash prize to the first person to successfully complete a solo, non-stop and unaided circumnavigation of the globe in a sailboat. This book is the morbidly fascinating story of one of the participants, Donald Crowhurst, a talented . story well told with concern for the facts great story. good documentary also available, and soon a feature film?impressed by author's desire to get the facts right. much was based on interpretation of notes by a man who grew increasing delusional. well done.. Insanity, viewed from the inside Stephen Foster Towards the end, reading Crowhurst's last log entries, I worried that I myself might come unhinged.This is not a sailing book -- it is a detective story about what pressure and isolation can do to the human mind. The authors do a wonderful job of assembling and presenting the evidence.It doesn't matter at all that you know the complete story before you start (but if you