Knockdown: A True Story of Sailors and the Sea - Hardcover

Duggard, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671038788 ISBN 13: 9780671038786

Verlag: Pocket Books, 2000

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Book by Dugard Martin

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Martin Duggard takes the reader down 725 miles of Australia's eastern coast, and across the Bass Strait as he recreates the voyages of several ill-fated crews. Through interviews he chronicles the saga of the windswept sailors whose skill and daring were futile against the waves and winds.

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In the world of blue water, or open ocean, yacht racing, the Sydney to Hobart challenge is considered one of the most treacherous races in the world. Nineteen-ninety-eight proved why. Slammed by a sudden freak storm that unleashed ninety-mile-per-hour winds and waves seven stories tall, twenty-four boats were abandoned at sea as sixty-three sailors fought for their lives. Six would die, including two who would never be found. Here, premier adventure writer Martin Dugard recreates the emotional saga of these windswept sailors -- survivors and victims alike -- shedding fascinating light on this extreme sport.

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• Verlag: Pocket Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0671038788
• ISBN 13: 9780671038786
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320