Synopses & Reviews
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 his gripping tale as heroic as it is thrilling.
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"Heartfelt writing....You are immersed in his passion." New York Times Book Review
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"Irresistible....His joy in his terrifying, wind-whipped world is contagious. He writes of his extraordinary deeds matter-of-factly and with humor." Washington Post Book World