A Race Too Far
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A Race Too Far
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Author : Chris Eakin
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-04-02
A Race Too Far written by Chris Eakin and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The true story of the tragic round-the-world yacht race - now the subject of The Mercy, starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race–an incredible test of endurance never before attempted–a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop. This remarkable challenge inspired those daring to enter–with or without sailing experience. A Race Too Far is the story of how the race unfolded, and how it became a tragedy for many involved. Of the nine sailors who started the race, four realised the madness of the undertaking and pulled out within weeks. The remaining five each have their own remarkable story. Chay Blyth, fresh from rowing the Atlantic with John Ridgway, had no sailing experience but managed to sail round the Cape of Good Hope before retiring. Nigel Tetley sank while in the lead with 1,100 nautical miles to go, surviving but dying in tragic circumstances two years later. Donald Crowhurst began showing signs of mental illness and tried to fake a round the world voyage. His boat was discovered adrift in an apparent suicide, but his body was never found. Bernard Moitessier abandoned the race and carried on to Tahiti, where he settled and fathered a child despite having a wife and family in Paris. Robin Knox-Johnston was the only one to complete the race. Chris Eakin recreates the drama of the epic race, talking to all those touched by the Golden Globe: the survivors, the widows and the children of those who died. It is a book that both evokes the primary wonder of the adventure itself and reflects on what it has come to mean to both those involved and the rest of us in the forty years since.
Race Too Far
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Author : Chris Eakin
language : en
Publisher: Ebury Press
Release Date : 2009-04
Race Too Far written by Chris Eakin and has been published by Ebury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04 with categories.
In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race - an incredible test of endurance never before attempted - a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop, going into port for repairs or supplies would mean disqualification. This remarkable challenge inspired the daring to enter - with or without sailing experience. A Race Too Far is the story of how the race unfolded, and how it became a tragedy for many involved. Of the nine sailors who started the race, four realised the madness of the undertaking and pulled out within weeks. The remaining five each have their own remarkable story. Chay Blyth, fresh from rowing the Atlantic with John Ridgway, had no sailing experience but managed to sail round the Cape of Good Hope before retiring. Nigel Tetley sank whilst in the lead with 1,100 nautical miles to go, surviving but taking his own life two years later. Donald Crowhurst began showing signs of mental illness and tried to fake a round the world voyage. Hi
A Challenge Too Far
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Author : Rona Cant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
A Challenge Too Far written by Rona Cant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with BT Global Challenge (Race) categories.
Chronicles Cant's participation in the Round the World Yacht Race 2000/2001.
Voyage For Madmen
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Author : Peter Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Release Date : 2011-05
Voyage For Madmen written by Peter Nichols and has been published by Profile Books(GB) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05 with Single-handed sailing categories.
Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th AnniversaryIt lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didn't even know how to sail. They had more in common with Captain Cook or Ferdinand Magellan than with the high-tech, extreme sailors of today, a mere forty years later. It was not the sea or the weather that determined the nature of their voyages but the men they were, and they were as different from one another as Scott from Amundsen. Only one of the nine crossed the finishing line after ten months at sea. The rest encountered despair, sublimity, madness and even death.
Gone Too Far Troubleshooters 6
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Author : Suzanne Brockmann
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-01-17
Gone Too Far Troubleshooters 6 written by Suzanne Brockmann and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-17 with Fiction categories.
Troubleshooters: They Never Let You Down. The sixth addictive romantic suspense novel in New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann's Troubleshooters series, filled with thrilling adventure, excitement and passion. In GONE TOO FAR, ex-lovers Lieutenant Sam Starrett and FBI agent Alyssa Locke find that sometimes the only way to the truth is to break the law... Whilst Lieutenant Sam Starrett's career as a Navy SEAL has gone from strength to strength, his private life has turned into a mess. Waiting for his divorce papers was always going to be tough but Sam's life turns into a nightmare when he arrives at his ex-wife's home for a visit with his young daughter to find a woman lying brutally murdered and his daughter missing. FBI agent Alyssa Locke is dismayed to find herself assigned to Sam's case. She and her former lover have a complex history and their intense attraction has never gone away. But with Sam the main suspect in a murder investigation, Alyssa is faced with an impossible dilemma: arrest a man she believes in her heart to be innocent, or risk her career to help save him. With passion simmering between them, Alyssa and Sam must go on the run to discover the truth and find Sam's daughter, but they have no idea how deadly this situation is about to become...
Your Face In Mine
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Author : Jess Row
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-08-14
Your Face In Mine written by Jess Row and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Fiction categories.
An award-winning writer delivers a poignant and provocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn’t recognize calls out to him. To Kelly’s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly’s closest friends in high school—and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, skinny, white, and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: After years of immersing himself in black culture, he’s had a plastic surgeon perform “racial reassignment surgery”—altering his hair, skin, and physiognomy to allow him to pass as African American. Unknown to his family or childhood friends, Martin has been living a new life ever since. Now, however, Martin feels he can no longer keep his new identity a secret; he wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery to the world. Kelly, still recovering from the death of his wife and child and looking for a way to begin anew, agrees, and things quickly begin to spiral out of control. Inventive and thought-provoking, Your Face in Mine is a brilliant novel about cultural and racial alienation and the nature of belonging in a world where identity can be a stigma or a lucrative brand.
Why I M No Longer Talking To White People About Race
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Author : Reni Eddo-Lodge
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-12
Why I M No Longer Talking To White People About Race written by Reni Eddo-Lodge and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-12 with Political Science categories.
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD
The Secret Race
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Author : Tyler Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2012-09-05
The Secret Race written by Tyler Hamilton and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. . . . The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s the game ender.”—Outside NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The Secret Race is the book that rocked the world of professional cycling—and exposed, at long last, the doping culture surrounding the sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong. Former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s top-ranked cyclists—and a member of Lance Armstrong’s inner circle. Over the course of two years, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an explosive page-turner of a book that takes us deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to win that they would do almost anything to gain an edge. For the first time, Hamilton recounts his own battle with depression and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong. This edition features a new Afterword, in which the authors reflect on the developments within the sport, and involving Armstrong, over the past year. The Secret Race is a courageous, groundbreaking act of witness from a man who is as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to win the Tour de France. With a new Afterword by the authors. “Loaded with bombshells and revelations.”—VeloNews “[An] often harrowing story . . . the broadest, most accessible look at cycling’s drug problems to date.”—The New York Times “ ‘If I cheated, how did I get away with it?’ That question, posed to SI by Lance Armstrong five years ago, has never been answered more definitively than it is in Tyler Hamilton’s new book.”—Sports Illustrated “Explosive.”—The Daily Telegraph (London)
The Great Race
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Author : Christopher Corr
language : en
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Release Date : 2019-01-03
The Great Race written by Christopher Corr and has been published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-03 with Astrology, Chinese categories.
A beautifully illustrated version of the traditional folktale about the Chinese zodiac from the author of Deep in the Woods.
Constraint Of Race
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Author : Linda Faye Williams
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Constraint Of Race written by Linda Faye Williams and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Political Science categories.