Completely Mad
Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the Epic Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic
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11 134 Ft
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A termék adatai:
- Kiadó Pegasus Books
- Megjelenés dátuma 2023. szeptember 28.
- Kötetek száma Hardback
- ISBN 9781639364176
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem384 oldal
- Méret 228x152x35 mm
- Súly 568 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 16 pages of color photographs + maps 541
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Rövid leírás:
From the New York Times bestselling author of First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary&&&8212;and extraordinarily different&&&8212;adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
From the New York Times&&&160;bestselling author of The First Man&&&160;comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers&&&160;who have only one thing&&&160;in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone.&&&160;
In this bracing adventure tale, the story of John Fairfax and Tom McLean are woven together for the first time. Fairfax would set off from the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa with his sights on Florida.&&&160;McClean charted a course from Newfoundland to Ireland.
The two men couldn’t have been more different. John Fairfax was a golden-haired playboy, gambler, whiskey, gun smuggler, and ex-pirate who blamed his boat often, and who brazenly took time off from his goal of reaching America to hop aboard large ships for a drink, a shower, and good food. He courted the press like a modern-day Richard Branson or Elon Musk.
The egoless Tom McClean was an orphan with a tough, Dickensian childhood, who ran off to become a British paratrooper and later joined the SAS (his training rivalled the U.S. Navy Seals). Tom was a purist who loved his boat Silver and never once took time off from rowing to sun himself on a remote beach or jump aboard a cruise ship. After 70 days, he landed on the rocky coast of Ireland to no fanfare and headed straight to the nearest pub.
Though the two men’s remarkable transoceanic journeys seem pulled from a different era, both embarked&&&160;within days of the first landing on the Moon: July 20th, 1969.
Filled with gale-force winds, backbreaking effort, menacing sharks, playful dolphins, awing natural beauty, great mishaps, failed equipment, hypothermia, near-drowning, the fighting of mental and physical lethargy, creative problem-solving, phantom illusions on the water, and glorious moments of bliss,&&&160;Completely Mad&&&160;stands alongside other classics of ocean adventure.&&&160;
With gripping and insightful prose, James R. Hansen brings&&&160;to life Fairfax and McLean&&&39;s expeditions, from their battle&&&160;with the elements to their own inner demons.&&&160; Completely Mad&&&160;is&&&160;a nail-biting, epic tale of endurance, and readers will be gripped until the end to find out who won.&&&160;
“What happened on these journeys — 70 days for McClean, 180 days for Fairfax — makes for reading both enthralling and horrifying. Each man had to row around 23,000 strokes a day for months on end. Hansen skillfully interweaves their stories, recounting tales of bleeding hands, capsizings, shark attacks, storms of biblical proportions, freak waves, brutal heat, freezing cold, physical prostration and psychic collapse. Hansen shows impressive research, fine storytelling skills and mastery of detail. The real star of the book is Tom McClean, today 81 years old and living in Scotland. Hansen calls him his ‘nautical Gandalf,’ with ‘veiled power, good intentions, care for all creatures of good,” adding that McClean “showed me, Jedi-like, how to steer my boat.’”
Completely Mad: Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the Epic Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic
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