Tamata and the Alliance Hardback
by Bernard Moitessier
Hardback
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This fascinating memoir spans the time from Moitessier's magical childhood in Vietnam to months before his death, is a beautifully written saga of physical adventure and spiritual growth. Born in the French Indochina in 1925, Bernard Moitessier grew up astride two cultures--French and Vietnamese--in a turbulent era that moved dramatically from peace to war.
Imprisoned during the Japanese occupation, he was later drafted to fight the Viet Minh in a French war that foreshadowed America's own Vietnam involvement two decades later. Tamata tells how the 25-year-old Moitessier left Vietnam to answer the call of the sea.
He led the life of a sea-gypsy, wandering the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic, and the Caribbean, learning the ways of boats and the sea and surviving two catastrophic shipwrecks.
His greatest sailing adventures followed, the Tahiti-Alicante passage and his ten month round-the-world solo voyage in 1969 when he withdrew from the Golden Globe Race and sailed on to Tahiti. Moitessier then spent three years on a remote atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago.
Called "Tamata" ("try it!") by his Tuamotu friends, he built a Polynesian-style house, planted coconut trees, and gradually transformed the sun-blasted coral into a speck of green in the middle of the South Pacific. After living in the United States, he spent the last years of his life in France.
He is buried in a small fishing village in Brittany.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, 57 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:25/01/1995
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- ISBN:9780924486777
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, 57 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:25/01/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780924486777
