{"product_id":"a-voyage-for-madmen-isbn-9780060957032","title":"A Voyage for Madmen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read.\" — Sebastian Junger, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Storm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of \u003ci\u003eInto Thin Air\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a breathtaking piece of maritime history and an oceanic adventure about an obsessive desire to test the limits of human endurance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held—the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race—and never before completed: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGorgeously written and meticulously researched by author Peter Nichols, this extraordinary true story of survival chronicles the contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. \u003ci\u003eA Voyage for Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms, and of those riveting moments when a decision means the difference between life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis definitive account of the legendary Golden Globe Race goes inside each boat to chronicle the harrowing truth of what happened on the high seas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Daring First Golden Globe:\u003c\/b\u003e In 1968, nine men set off on a challenge thought impossible—to sail alone, nonstop around the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNine Sailors, One Survivor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ten months later, only one would cross the finish line. For the others, the race ended in madness, failure, and death.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDesperate Conditions at Sea:\u003c\/b\u003e A riveting account of horrific storms and life-or-death decisions in the age before GPS, satellite phones, or electronic positioning systems.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA True Story of Obsession:\u003c\/b\u003e Gorgeously written and deeply researched, this is the unforgettable story of the dreams and demons that drove each man to his fate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cem\u003eA Voyage for Madmen\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"A great book that combines the amazing stories of nine lone adventurers into a narrative so seamless that it made me want to drop everything to do what these men did: sail around the world alone. \u003cem\u003eA Voyage For Madmen\u003c\/em\u003e is a thoroughly exciting account of a historical event that changed how we perceive our world.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Hays, author of My Old Man and The Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderful, terrifying book about aspiration and fallibility, and how success and doom and madness are kept apart from each other by the slenderest of threads.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Rayner, author of The Cloud Sketcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Peter Nichols has written a compulsively readable book that has everything a sea story should have. \u003cem\u003eA Voyage For Madmen\u003c\/em\u003e evokes the uniquely terrifying hazards and demands of the sea and, with a novelist's skill for character and detail, shows how nine single-handed sailors in their puny and inadequate boats undertook the last great maritime feat--the longest, loneliest sea voyage in history--and how, one by one, the sea cut them down. A marvelous book.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDerek Lundy, author of Godforsaken Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Nichols] is as convincing on seafaring, navigation and weather as Hemingway is on big game hunting and bullfighting.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Peter Nichols'] account of the gripping round the world yacht race of 1968 ... could be another \u003cem\u003ePerfect Storm\u003c\/em\u003e. ... [It] tells of another age of human endeavor and lonely struggle against the sea.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bookseller, London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Laced with suspense ... A well-detailed, fast-paced chronicle of the Sunday Times of London's 1968 Golden Globe Race, in which 9 men attempted to sail nonstop around the world alone.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reads like a suspense novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A thrilling saga of courage and competition, a tribute to the fortitude of man.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCape Codder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary saga...Crisp, unfanciful, evocative and constantly gripping, a story of men pushed up to and beyond their limits.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas....One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Spellbinding.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A riveting account of the triumphant human spirit.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A haunting story...[that] succeeds on the grandest scale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] genuinely extraordinary story...Nichols admirably splices nine narrative threads into an eminently readable whole, a story that practically turns its own pages.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Conveys so vividly...the unmoored passage of time and space while sailors are alone at sea. 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