Close to the Wind - 9780786707416
Un libro in lingua di Pete Goss edito da Da Capo Pr, 2000
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Close to the Wind
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Pete Goss
- Editore: Da Capo Pr
- Collana: Da Capo Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 08 Maggio '00
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Peso gr: 385
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0786707410
- EAN-13: 9780786707416