Godforsaken Sea
Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters
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By Derek Lundy
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- On Sale
- Sep 20, 2012
- Page Count
- 312 pages
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781616202477
Author Derek Lundy’s vivid book follows the field of the 1996 – 1997 Vendee Globe through the race’s grueling four-month circumnavigation of the globe, most of it through the terror of the Southern Ocean.
Lundy narrates the race through the eyes and experiences of sixteen sailors – fourteen men and two women – who embdoy the best and most eccentric aspects of our human condition. There’s the gallant Brit who spends days beating back against the worst seas to save a fellow sailor; the Frenchman who bothers to salvage only a bottle of champagne from his broken and sinking boat; the sailor who comes to love the albatross that trails her for months, naming it Bernard; the sailor who calmly smokes a cigarette as his boat capsizes; and the Canadian who, hours before he disappears forever, dispatches this message:
If you drag things out too long here, you’re sure to come to grief.
With the literary touch of Saint-Exupery and Conrad, Derek Lundy harnesses hurricane-force winds, six story waves, icebergs, and deafening noise. And he lays bare the spirit of the men and women who push themselves to the outer limits of human endeavor – even if it means never returning home.
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