2 more to read about the Golden Globe race of 1967: "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst" (he faked his position and ended up killing himself) and "The Long Way" by Bernard Moitessier (he would have won the race if not for bagging it and going around Africa and Australia again and heading to Tahiti; he was enjoying the Southern Ocean too much to "win" the race; interesting character) --
Christian http://photography.skofteland.net Adam Maas wrote: > Cotty wrote: >> >>I keep several by the side of my bed. There's one I've read it twice >>before - once when I was a lad, once about 10 or 15 years ago. Now it >>simply lives there - the perfect book for dipping into when sleep >>crosses the road and walks past on the other side. 'Gypsy Moth Circles >>the World' by Sir Francis Chichester. A solo circumnavigation of the >>globe by a sailing pioneer. Amazing diary of man V the elements. >> >> > > > Sounds like an interesting read. I'll have to keep an eye out for a > copy. The most entertaining read on seafaring I've had in a while is a > bio of Lord Cochrane, the guy O'Brian based Jack Aubrey on. It's telling > when O'Brian had to tone down the exploits as nobody would believe > Cochrane's actual exploits in fiction. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
