Theirs Is The Glory

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Publisher: Hodder And Stoughton
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1974
Edition: First Edition

Description: 222 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear and there are pieces missing from top coner, but still presentable. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: from the inside dust cover:"First across the line in the Whitbread Round-the-World Race, Chay Blyth and his crew of paras aboard Great Britain II equalled the record of the famous grain clippers. They had sailed around the world in 144 days, 10 hours, 31 minutes and 29.42 seconds, covering approximately 27,570 miles in four gruelling stages - Portsmouth to Cape Town, to Sydney, to Rio and back to Portsmouth.The race itself was extremely tough: three competitors were drowned, many more injured, and several boats, including the much-favored Eric Tabarlys Pen Duick VI, were severely damaged. Cha Blyth set sail with a crew of twelve and returned with nine. One of their numbered died, another broke an arm. In the Roaring Forties they lost their spinnakers, had their poles broken and also snapped the mizen mast, but found time to send a cheerful wedding telegram to Princess Anne, who had launched Great Britain II. This is a book about one boats part in an exciting ocean race, about the exhilaration of creaming along in the trade winds, the suspense of braoching on the Southern Ocean, the pride of sailing around the world faster than anyone else. But it is also about the transformation of a bunch of paras, most of whom had never put to sea before. When they put a reef in the mainsail on the first leg of the race it took them half-an-hour. Doing the same job on the last took them seven minutes. Chay Blyth had moulded them into a hardworking, tough and dedicated crew, who could handle a 77-foot boat and give the best ocean racers in the business a real run for their money. And in the end - theirs is the glory."

ISBN: 034018518x