The Romantic Challenge Paperback / softback
by Francis Chichester
Paperback / softback
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There was in Sir Francis Chichester a restless spirit never satisfied with his achievements.
Throughout his adventurous life this quiet Englishman has sought to challenge odds that other, younger, stronger men declared insuperable.
As a pilot, as a yachtsman, as a navigator, even as a man who broke the grip of cancer, Sir Francis was always a pioneer.
Where he led, others followed: but when he triumphed, he at once sought a new and greater challenge. This is a book about such a challenge. With the feasibility of long-distance voyages proven beyond doubt - not least by his own remarkable circumnavigation in 1966 - Sir Francis turned at once to the next great barrier facing the single-hander, the 'speed barrier', setting himself the staggering target of sailing 4,000 miles between two fixed points on the earth's surface in 20 days - an average of 200 miles a day whatever the wind, whatever the weather. The Romantic Challenge tells of the planning, the calculations and the sheer hard work that in January 1971 led him and Gipsy Moth V to their 'starting line' for a race which is the single-hander's '4-Minute Mile' and Marathon, combined in one gruelling, non-stop, murderous ocean race.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:16/06/2016
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- ISBN:9781509834433
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:16/06/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781509834433
