FOUR TIMES ALONE: A Global Sailing Race Chronicle (English Edition)

Our collective imagination is readily captured by large stories where individual courage and survival skills are tested in nature. This theme is played out daily in Four Times Alone recording a singlehanded, circumnavigation sailing race. Through e-mail communications from each boat and daily press releases, among other resources, a fast paced exciting race chronicle is presented. The risks taken in sailing singlehanded through the enormous and raucous Southern Ocean are many and often overwhelming. With boats pushed to the brink of destruction, their caretakers must rise above every taxing physical and mental challenge where fierce storms can overtake them, sudden windless stretches might send them into maddening drifts. Where sun blisters the skin, the cold numbs the body. Striking a balance between technical sailing aspects and human drama, this book should appeal to sailor and landlubber alike, amateur meteorologist, adventurers, and nautical aficionados, too.