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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst - Now Filmed As The Mercy (Paperback)
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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst - Now Filmed As The Mercy (Paperback)
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List price R285
Loot Price R258
Discovery Miles 2 580
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'A masterpiece.' New Yorker 'Wholly riveting, brilliantly
researched.' Evening Standard 'A meticulous investigation into the
seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday
Times In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical
navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden
Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunity to
showcase his product. Few people knew that he wasn't an experienced
deep-water sailor. His progress was so slow that he decided to
short-cut the journey, while falsifying his location through radio
messages from his supposed course. Everyone following the race
thought that he was winning, and a hero's welcome awaited him at
home in Britain. But on 10 July 1968, eight months after he set
off, his wife was told that his boat had been discovered drifting
in mid-Atlantic. Crowhurst was missing, assumed drowned, and there
was much speculation that this was one of the great mysteries of
the sea. In this masterpiece of investigative journalism, Nicholas
Tomalin and Ron Hall reconstruct one of the greatest hoaxes of our
time. From in-depth interviews with Crowhurst's family and friends
and telling excerpts from his logbooks, Tomalin and Hall develop a
tale of tragic self-delusion and public deception, a haunting
portrait of a complex, deeply troubled man and his journey into the
heart of darkness.
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