Alone : The True Story of the Man Who Fought the Sharks, Waves, and Weather of the Pacific and Won Paperback / softback
by Gerard d'Aboville
Paperback / softback
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This is the incredible true story of one man’s heroic battle against impossible odds, a tale of pain and anguish, bravery and utter solitude, a tale that ends in a victory not only over the implacable ocean but over himself as well. At the age of forty-five, Gerard d’Aboville set out to row across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the United States.
Taking his rowboat the Sector, which had a living compartment thirty-one inches high, containing a bunk, one-burner stove, and a ham radio, d’Aboville made his way across an ocean 6,200 miles wide.
Though he rowed twelve hours a day, battled cyclones and headwinds that kept him in one place for days at a time, was capsized dozens of times forty-foot waves that hit him like cannonballs, he never quit; even when he was trapped upside down inside his cabin for almost two hours while nearly depleting his oxygen trying to right the boat. One hundred and thirty-four days after his departure, d’Aboville arrived in the little fishing village of Ilwaco, Washington, leaving his body bruised and battered, and weighing thirty-seven pounds less.
This is his story.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date:15/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781611451122
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date:15/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781611451122
