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In the autumn of 1968,Donald Crowhurst set out from England in his untested trimaran,a competitor in the first singlehanded nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later,the boat was found in mid-Atlantic with no one on board. Crowhurst's logs and diaries revealed that,although he had radioed messages from his supposed round-the-world course,he had in fact never left the Atlantic. This journalistic masterpiece reconstructs what happened: Crowhurst's growing distrust of his boat; his first decision to attempt one of the great hoaxes of our time; the lying radio transmissions; the triumphal return up the Atlantic as the elapsed-time race leader; and the fantastic ending. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is both a suspenseful narrative and a psychological casebook of human zeal and anguish. <p>In the fall of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set out from England in his untested trimaran, a competitor in the first single-handed nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, the boat was found in mid-Atlantic with no one on board. This journalistic masterpiece reconstructs what really happened and provides details on one of the greatest h

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Author

[by] Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall

Publisher

Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812860429

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Stem

Rating

4.12 / 5 (615 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14