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A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols PDF Download Released: [1 decade ago] Download A Voyage For Madmen - Peter Nichols (PDF, ePub, Mobi) Free, In , nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe www.doorway.ru was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing.  · Peter Nichols has put together a great little book on the Golden Globe race to be the first man to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping in any ports along the way. "A Voyage for Madmen" gives a great overview of the race and varying personalities involved -- from professional maritime men to vagabond sailors to one contestant who didn't even learn to sail until he /5. In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms in the Southern Ocean, and of those riveting moments when a split-second decision means the difference between life and death.

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Peter Nichols is the author of the national bestseller A Voyage for Madmen and two other books, Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat, a memoir, and the novel Voyage to the North Star. He has taught creative writing at NYU in Paris and Georgetown University, and presently teaches at Bowdoin College. "A Voyage for Madmen" recounts the story of the 9 sailors (9 brave men) who set out to circummnavigate the world non-stop, without assistance other than radio and the ocassional face to face encounter, on the Sunday Times' sponsored Golden globe race of In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms in the Southern Ocean, and of those riveting moments when a split-second decision means the difference between life and death.