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Around Alone

By Emma Richards

Book information

Publisher
Pan Macmillan Ltd
Year
2004
ISBN
1405045868, 1405048042
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30133516 bytes)
Pages
354\354
Time added
2023-12-06 00:12:26
Sailing

Description

More people have gone into space than have sailed around the world alone. It is one of the most arduous tests of mental and physical stamina imaginable and the most prolonged endurance trial of any sport. When Emma Richards found that she was the youngest contender and the only woman in the 2002 Around Alone race, she wondered what she had gotten herself into. Yet for Richards, the physical ordeals paled against the soul-destroying solitude” of months alone aboard a yacht. And when, in the dead of night, her radio warned of marauding pirates, her profound loneliness turned to abject terror. Around Alone not only recounts a remarkable sporting triumph, it also reveals the human side of one of sailing’s brightest new stars.

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