The Race: The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition
By Tim Zimmermann.
Description
Why saw the handle off your toothbrush? Why tackle the world's stormiest waters in a fragile craft that has never weathered such seas before? The answer to both these questions is the same: to sail faster than anyone ever has before. In engrossing, suspenseful detail, THE RACE relates how and why participants in the first running of The Race risked millions of dollars and their lives to dash around the world in record time. Other contests have pushed people and boats past their limits, but no race has ever left so little margin for error. For this very reason, The Race attracted the wo...
ISBN(s)
0618117482, 9780618117482
