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The Life of David Lewis
This British-born New Zealander was the first person to sail a catamaran around the world, the first — in Ice Bird — to reach Antarctica solo under sail, and the first to produce a comprehensive academic analysis of how ancient navigators reached — and could reach again — the Pacific islands.
His many voyages resulted in thirteen books published and translated worldwide; many were bestsellers — We, the Navigators has not been out of print since first publication in 1972.
David Lewis’s achievements have been acknowledged with a series of awards, including that of Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
But the price of his adventures had ultimately to be paid by others, in the succession of families he created, then broke apart; and many of his actions brought him into conflict with the feelings of friends and contemporaries.
Dame Naomi James comments
…”It is said that ‘madness’ is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. His many voyages, and marriages, show the meaning of good intention that never quite works out the way they were intended.
David Lewis was an unstoppable man, a thinking man, a man who examined his conscience owned his failings, without the power to change them…”
This is the first Biography of David Henry Lewis.
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