Long Way
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs, as well as overwhelming fatigue and loneliness. Then, nearing the finish, Moitessier pulled out of the race and sailed on for another three months before ending his 37,455-mile journey in Tahiti. Not once had he touched land.
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- This entire race is incredibly interesting. Besides Crowhurst you had two people who had no sailing experience besides a quick lesson before setting out in boats completely unsuitable for the task, one guy who just seemed in it for a lark and ended up winning despite having an old and slow boat which should have had no chance, and the man who had little real competition and should have won but decided to just keep sailing instead of finishing the race.
A Voyage for Madmen is a great read about the race, as are Bernard Moitessier's and Robin Knox-Johnston's books about their experiences in the race (The Long Way and A World of my Own). There are some interesting books about Crowhurst but they are mostly conjecture and speculation since we don't have much to go on there and I ultimately felt A Voyage for Madmen essentially covered his story in a fraction of the space.
- Looking for good books to read. Any recommendations? I liked these:
Everything and More, David Foster Wallace
Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell
Antifragile, Nassim Taleb
The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, Rene Girard
The Wu-Tang Manual, RZA
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Essays, Michel de Montaigne
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Joan Didion
- I cannot recommend 'The Long Way' by Bernard Moitessier & 'The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst' highly enough. Both books cover how 2 contestants in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race could have won but did not, for rather interesting/different reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Golden_Globe_Race
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