A Voyage for Madmen, (Paperback)

from amerynth

Peter Nichols has put together a great little book on the 1969 Golden Globe race to be the first man to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping in any ports along the way. "A Voyage for Madmen" gives a great overview of the race and varying personalities involved -- from profess...

from vguy

Not my field (I've only been sailing once) but brings it to life both as technical challenge and human drama. Success and failure clearly shown as result of personality, rather than luck or skill. The phlegmatic Knox-Johnston making himself comfortable as he seems to float to victory contrasts wi...

from nandadevi

This is an essential companion to Tomalin and Hall's 'The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst' which is one of the finest - and most disturbing - accounts ever written of a man's descent into madness. Nichols tells the story of the other boats in this race around the world from which only one retu...

from justmum

A book about the various men who took part in the first round the world single handed boat/yacht race which occurred in the late 1960's. A lot of the text is taken directly from the men's daily log books. Shows both the bravery and foolishness of men, the intense preparations needed for such a vo...

from Eliz12

Very, very good book. At times a bit too technical for me, and I would have liked to know more about the men themselves and their daily lives at sea, not simply their reactions to crises.