Godforsaken Sea : Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters EPUB

';The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing... As tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air' (San Francisco Chronicle).

Godforsaken Sea is the hair-raising account of the world's most demanding, dangerous, and deadly sailing racefollowing the field of the 19961997 Vendee Globe through a grueling four-month circumnavigation of the earth, most of it through the terror of the Southern Ocean.

Among the sixteen sailors are the gallant Brit who spends days beating back against the worst seas to save a fellow sailor; the Frenchman who bothers to salvage only a bottle of champagne from his broken and sinking boat; the sailor who comes to love the albatross that trails her for months, naming it Bernard; the sailor who calmly smokes a cigarette as his boat capsizes; and the Canadian who, hours before he disappears forever, dispatches this message: If you drag things out too long here, you're sure to come to grief.

Bringing to life hurricane-force winds, six-story waves, icebergs, and deafening noiseand blending maritime history, ocean science, and literary allusionsthis true story lays bare the spirit of the men and women who push themselves to the outer limits of human endeavoreven if it means never returning home.

';Explores how and why humans feel drawn to the extreme risks and almost inevitable disasters that single-handedly sailing the Southern Ocean entails....Mr. Lundy not only makes stirring narrative drama but also draws the lineaments of an archetypal hero, a human driven by fear, addicted to adrenaline, in need of the edge.' The New York Times

';Godforsaken Sea is one of the best books ever written about sailing....Lundy's knowledge of sea lore and history is rich, his pace perfect, his intelligence full of energy. He differentiates each sailor with a novelist's touch.' Time