Strange Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1970
Edition: Reprint

Description: 256 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear and light age marks on the inside pages, but still presentable. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set out from England in his untested trimaran, a competitor in the first singlehanded nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, the boat was found in mid-Atlantic with no one on board. Crowhursts logs and diaries revealed that, although he had radioed messages from his supposed round-the-world course, he had in fact never left the Atlantic. This journalistic masterpiece reconstructs what Crowhursts growing distrust of his boat; his first decision to attempt one of the great hoaxes of our time; the lying radio transmissions; the ``triumphal return up the Atlantic as the elapsed-time race leader; and the fantastic ending. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is both a suspenseful narrative and a psychological casebook of human zeal and anguish.

ISBN: 0340129204