Gipsy Moth Circles The World

Author : Francis Chichester
Publisher : Boxtree
ISBN 13 : 1743546211
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gipsy Moth Circles The World written by Francis Chichester and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time immemorial, few narrative genres have had the power to so stir the emotions or captivate the imagination as the true account of a lone adventurer's triumph over the titanic forces of nature. Among the handful of such tales to emerge in the twentieth century, one of the most enduring surely must be Sir Francis Chichester's account of his solitary, nine-month journey around the world in his 53-foot ketch Gipsy Moth IV. The story of how the sixty-five-year-old navigator singlehandedly circumnavigated the globe, the whole way battling hostile seas as well as his boat's numerous design flaws, is a tale of superhuman tenacity and endurance to be read and reread by sailors and armchair adventurers alike. First published in 1967, just months after the completion of Chichester's historic journey, Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an instant international best-seller. It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure. Francis Chichester's 1967 singlehanded circumnavigation set a blazing record for speed. He completed the voyage with just one stop and 226 days at sea. It was an amazing performance; that he was sixty-five years old made it the more so. Chichester then sat down to write one of the great narratives of modern voyaging. "A remarkable feat, a moving story of conquest by the unquenchable human spirit, a determined old man's gesture of defiance at the modern world. Such was the voyage; his book is a fine account of it with nothing left out."--Alan Villiers, Saturday Review

Author : Francis Chichester
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447234200
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gipsy Moth Circles The World written by Francis Chichester and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time immemorial, few narrative genres have had the power to so stir the emotions or captivate the imagination as the true account of a lone adventurer's triumph over the titanic forces of nature. Among the handful of such tales to emerge in the twentieth century, one of the most enduring surely must be Sir Francis Chichester's account of his solitary, nine-month journey around the world in his 53-foot ketch Gipsy Moth IV. The story of how the sixty-five-year-old navigator singlehandedly circumnavigated the globe, the whole way battling hostile seas as well as his boat's numerous design flaws, is a tale of superhuman tenacity and endurance to be read and reread by sailors and armchair adventurers alike. First published in 1967, just months after the completion of Chichester's historic journey, Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an instant international best-seller. It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure. Francis Chichester's 1967 singlehanded circumnavigation set a blazing record for speed. He completed the voyage with just one stop and 226 days at sea. It was an amazing performance; that he was sixty-five years old made it the more so. Chichester then sat down to write one of the great narratives of modern voyaging.

Author : Sir Francis Chichester
Publisher : London, Pan Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lonely Sea and the Sky written by Sir Francis Chichester and published by London, Pan Books Limited. This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of aviator and sailor Sir Francis Chichester, who was the second person to fly solo from England to Australia. It is a tale of ardour and adventure, of intrepid endeavours on land, on the sea and in the air, and of the physical and mental challenges he faced.

Author : Sir Francis Chichester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alone Across the Atlantic written by Sir Francis Chichester and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : fRANCIS Chichester
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780071364492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gipsy Moth Circles the World written by fRANCIS Chichester and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1967 bestseller "Gipsy Moth Circles the World" is the inspiration for this collection of stories that observe the sea from the perspective of a small boat under sail. Acclaimed writer Jonathan Raban has selected the world's finest sailing literature for this first book of "The Sailor's Classics" series and has written the Introduction. Photos.

Author : Sir Francis Chichester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gipsy Moth Circles the World written by Sir Francis Chichester and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Gelder
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780470724439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gipsy Moth IV written by Paul Gelder and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of Gipsy Moth IV from her epic first circumnavigation to her restoration, wreck and triumphant return. In this beautifully illustrated book, Yachting Monthly’s Paul Gelder tells the remarkable story of Gipsy Moth’s rise, fall and triumphant rise again. It is the definitive history of this sailing icon, illustrated throughout with never before published photographs of the boat, the restoration project and dramatic images from both of her epic voyages. The author has had unprecedented access to both the Chichester family archives and to the skippers’ and crews’ logs for the second circumnavigation, he even sailed aboard her on the first leg from Plymouth to Gibraltar. Having championed the restoration of this iconic yacht from the start, Paul Gelder has finally written a worthy successor the Chichester’s original bestseller Gipsy Moth Circles The World.

Author : Francis Chichester
Publisher : Boxtree
ISBN 13 : 174354619X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Challenge written by Francis Chichester and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is in Sir Francis Chichester a restless spirit never satisfied with his achievements. Throughout his adventurous life this quiet Englishman has sought to challenge odds that other, younger, stronger men have declared insuperable. As a pilot, as a yachtsman, as a navigator, even as a man who broke the grip of cancer, Sir Francis has always been a pioneer. Where he has led, others have followed: but when he has triumphed, he has at once sought a new and greater challenge. This is a book about such a challenge. With the feasibility of long-distance voyages proven beyond doubt—not least by his own remarkable circumnavigation in 1966—Sir Francis turned at once to the next great barrier facing the single-hander, the “speed barrier”, setting himself the staggering target of sailing 4,000 miles between two fixed points on the earth’s surface in 20 days—an average of 200 miles a day whatever the wind, whatever the weather. In this book he tells of the planning, the calculations and the sheer hard work that in January 1971 led him and Gipsy Moth V to their “starting line” for a race which is the single-hander’s “4-Minute Mile” and Marathon, combined in one gruelling, non-stop, murderous ocean race. This for a man—a unique, incredible man—in his seventieth year, was the romantic challenge.

Author : Christopher Pastore
Publisher : Globe Pequot
ISBN 13 : 9781592285570
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temple to the Wind written by Christopher Pastore and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of history's most famous yachts, and the giants who made it.

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307476987
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Beach written by Nevil Shute and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....