apguy
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Rather than read 20 or 30 books by solo sailors, this attempts to summaries them into a single 400 page volume, covering the very first explorers, through to the explosion in the 1960s with Golden Globe races and more recent solo round the world expeditions and onto current Vendee Globe, whilst covering the authors own solo Atlantic crossing.
For the first 100 pages I was disappointed with this book. I was hoping for tales of daring-do and tall tales. What you get is a rather flowery description of the why, rather than the how. But as you read on, it does fall into place, solo sailing is almost always about the why. Why do people choose to sail solo? The book then attempts to answer this by describing why each person chose to go.
It is meticulously researched. The references are about 30 pages in their own right.
A plodder, best read one chapter at a time. But it was insightful, to get an idea of peoples mindsets and to gain a glimmer of the reasoning behind why to go sailing alone.
For the first 100 pages I was disappointed with this book. I was hoping for tales of daring-do and tall tales. What you get is a rather flowery description of the why, rather than the how. But as you read on, it does fall into place, solo sailing is almost always about the why. Why do people choose to sail solo? The book then attempts to answer this by describing why each person chose to go.
It is meticulously researched. The references are about 30 pages in their own right.
A plodder, best read one chapter at a time. But it was insightful, to get an idea of peoples mindsets and to gain a glimmer of the reasoning behind why to go sailing alone.