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Alone, alone, all all alone, alone on a wide wide sea This is a wonderful book about a truly remarkable, moving and literally tragic misadventure. I first stumbled across Donald Crowhurst's story through a terrific Channel 4 feature film, Deep Water, and was so captivated by it that I bought this and another account of the race (fellow competitor Bernard Moitessier's The Long Way (which, for the record, doesn't really touch on the Crowhurst story)). The Bard himself could not have scripted a tragedy better than this. Crowhurst, a mercurial but... more info
Unputdownable I read this book in two evenings flat - I couldn't put it down. It is the definitive account of the life of Donald Crowhurst and his weird and tragic voyage. Despite the fact that he tried to 'cheat' you cannot help but feel sorry for the man, and especially his family. The maps, photos and diagrams are all well-explained and the excerpts from the logbooks riveting. There are so many twists, turns and ironies in the 'plot' that the book would have been a great work of fiction. It is made all the... more info
If we look deeply inside ourselves, what would we see? I have read this superb book on many occasions and each time it makes me a little uncomfortable. Why? Because in many ways I identify myself in it, and I suspect many others will feel the same way. The need to feel accepted by your peers, to be on the same level as them and fit in. And the feeling that the only way to achieve it is to do something as extraordinary and mad as Donald Crowhurst did.
In this day and age of multi million pound yacht racing with their sleek sexy boats and electronic gizmos,... more info
Beautiful madness in a mad world An account from the logbooks of sailor Donald Crowhurst who attempted to sail non-stop, single-handed around the world as part of a boat race. All looked remarkably good for the enthusiastic amateur, when after 240 days at sea he was within two weeks of a triumphant return. But then he disappeared. This was 1969. Before the sophisticated tracking used to check a vessel's progress, and all was taken as fact from the sailors logbooks. This is an account of what happened to a man hopelessly out of his... more info
