The Godforsaken Sea
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448114856
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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The Godforsaken Sea

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The enthralling account of the 1996/7 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race, a story of heroism, adventure and tragic loss of life on the high seas.

'One of the best books ever written about sailing'
Time

'One of the best books ever written about sailing'
Time

27,000 miles, three and a half to five months alone at sea, chilling casualty rates, the unrelenting strain of handling 60-foot boats day and night, the absolute certainty of weather and waves that could destroy them.

On 3 November 1996 sixteen sailors set out from the Bay of Biscay to embark on the Vendee Globe - a single-handed yacht race through the world's most treacherous and isolated seas.

Of the sixteen starters only six completed the course, six others withdrew or were disqualified, three were plucked from sinking boats and one disappeared without trace.

This is a book about the sea: how we are dawn to it and how it repels us and about why these men and women risk everything to embark on such a perilous journey.

TWENTIETH ANNIVESARY EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM THE AUTHOR.
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448114856
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Derek Lundy

Derek Lundy is the author of six books. He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

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Praise for The Godforsaken Sea

Contains all the tension of a thriller

Independent

A gripping and poetic evocation of the terrible and seductive power of the sea

Independent on Sunday

One of the best books ever written about sailing

Time

Eloquent... Lundy explores how and why humans feel drawn to the extreme risks and almost inevitable disasters that single-handedly sailing the Southern Ocean entails... A stirring narrative

New York Times

[An] excellent book

Matt Dickinson, The Times

Non-fiction it may be, but it contains all the tension of a thriller.

Stuart Alexander, The Independent

This is a book which vividly transcends its immediate brief as a narrative of the race and those who sailed it, and presents a gripping and poetic evocation of the terrible and seductive power of the sea.

John Tague, The Independent on Sunday
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