The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

Release on 2016-12-292016-12-29 by Nicholas Tomalin

Author: Nicholas Tomalin

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781473635371

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 320

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'A masterpiece.' New Yorker 'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard 'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday Times In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunity to showcase his product. Few people knew that he wasn't an experienced deep-water sailor. His progress was so slow that he decided to short-cut the journey, while falsifying his location through radio messages from his supposed course. Everyone following the race thought that he was winning, and a hero's welcome awaited him at home in Britain. But on 10 July 1968, eight months after he set off, his wife was told that his boat had been discovered drifting in mid-Atlantic. Crowhurst was missing, assumed drowned, and there was much speculation that this was one of the great mysteries of the sea. In this masterpiece of investigative journalism, Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall reconstruct one of the greatest hoaxes of our time. From in-depth interviews with Crowhurst's family and friends and telling excerpts from his logbooks, Tomalin and Hall develop a tale of tragic self-delusion and public deception, a haunting portrait of a complex, deeply troubled man and his journey into the heart of darkness.

Sports & Recreation

Language: en
Pages: 320

The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

Authors: Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall

Categories: Sports & Recreation

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-29 - Publisher: Hachette UK

Language: en
Pages: 273

The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

Authors: Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-01 - Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from England to participate in the first single-handed nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, his boat was found in the mid-Atlantic, intact but with no one on board. In this gripping reconstruction, journalists Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall tell the

Language: en
Pages: 317