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| Length: | 316 pages |
| Height: | 9.3 in. |
| Width: | 6.0 in. |
| Thickness: | 1.0 in. |
| Weight: | 23.2 oz. |
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| Why saw the handle off your toothbrush? Why tackle the world's stormiest waters in a fragile craft that has never weathered such seas before? The answer to both questions is the same: to sail faster than anyone ever has before. In engrossing, suspenseful detail, THE RACE relates how and why participants in the first running of The Race risked millions of dollars and their lives to dash around the world in record time. No race has ever left so little margin for error. For this very reason, The Race attracted the world's best sailors, among them a Chicago multimillionaire who has set more than twenty records in disciplines from ballooning to flying to sailing, a young Briton best known for risking his life to fish a competitor out of the Southern Ocean during a solo round-the-world race, and a hard-nosed New Zealander with virtually no experience skippering multihulls--the huge, fast, notoriously unstable boats that ran The Race. Zimmermann also chronicles the tumultuous history of extreme sailing, from nineteenth-century clipper ships to today's dangerous, high-tech marvels with masts fifteen stories tall, which can make up to 50 mph. He spotlights the protean personalities that have driven the sport: Joshua Slocum, who completed the first solo voyage around the world, aided by hallucinations of an old salt beside him at the helm; "Blondie" Hasler, an iconoclastic World War II hero who organized the first singlehanded transatlantic race; Francis Chichester, the sailor who won it despite weighing his small craft down with bottles of claret and a smoking jacket. Tim Zimmermann graces this high-tension saga with rich atmosphere, historical depth, and singular emotional intensity. | |
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| "A story told with just the kind of finesse the contest deserves." Kirkus Reviews (04/15/2002) | |
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