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The circumnavigators is the story of that rarest of yachtsmen: the man who, with little more than a few square feet of cloth and raw determination, sets out to sail around the world. The man who is irresistibly drawn to the open sea – society and its hysteria be damned.
Author Donald Holm has researched and analysed the most famous and notable of these voyages, unearthing many previously unknown personal accounts. He vividly recreates these exciting and audacious battles against the sea and seeks to define the underlying reasons why a man leaves the comforts of society to “bounce around the world at an average rate of five miles an hour in cramped damp, and usually extremely uncomfortable quarters.”
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