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Moitessier
Jean-Michel Barrault
其他書名
A Sailing Legend
出版
Sheridan House, Inc.
, 2005
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Sports
Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers
Biography & Autobiography / Aviation & Nautical
Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Sailing
Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / General
Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General
ISBN
1574092049
9781574092042
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LRS5rbTWWiwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In 1968 during the Golden Globe, the first solo non-stop race around the world, Bernard Moitessier sent the following message with a slingshot onto the deck of a freighter, 'I am continuing ...' With this unbelievable decision to turn his back on glory and money, when he had victory in his grasp, and continue sailing to the Pacific Islands after seven months at sea, he became a guru for all small boat sailors. Jean-Michel Barrault was his friend for 36 years. He met him when Moitessier, having survived two shipwrecks, went to Paris in search of work. He got him to start writing about his adventures, which Moitessier did beautifully. More adventures followed, a trip from Tahiti to Spain via Cape Horn as a honeymoon. After finishing 'The Long Way', his most famous book, Moitessier and Joshua, his 39-foot ketch spent many years in Polynesia where he built his own house, planted coconut trees and transformed his atoll into a speck of green in the middle of the South Pacific. He lived in the United States for a time, lost his boat in Cabo San Lucas during a hurricane, and spent his last years in France, where he wrote his memoirs. Shortly before his death, Tamata and the Alliance was published to great acclaim. Moitessier, the internationally known sailor, writer and ecologist, became a legend in his own time.