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The Race: The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition.

The Race: The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition.

The Race: The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing
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The Race: The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition.

by Zimmermann, Tim

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company. xiii + 316, Dust jacket covered with mylar jacket protector. Illustrated Very good + copy with a very good + dust jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 2002.

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An invigorating behind-the-scenes look at the world of extreme sailing, The Race is also a taut, engrossing account of the first running of the competition called The Race, which began on December 31, 2000, in Barcelona and ended sixty-two days later in Marseilles. The most intense event of its kind -- a nonstop circumnavigation of the globe in the fastest boats ever built -- The Race attracts some of the world's best sailors and arguably its most eccentric personalities. Tim Zimmermann, an experienced blue-water sailor, relates in knuckle-whitening detail how and why sailors risk millions of dollars and their lives to dash around the world in record time. He garnishes this story with a chronicle of the tumultuous history of extreme sailing from the nineteenth century to today. Zimmermann "puts the reader right on board with the tough, colorful crews as they take a crash course (sometimes literally) in how to handle these astonishing machines" (Derek Lundy, author of Godforsaken Sea).

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
099157
Title
The Race: The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition.
Author
Zimmermann, Tim
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st
ISBN 10
0618117482
ISBN 13
9780618117482
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication
Boston:
Date Published
2002
Pages
316
Keywords
Nautical, SAILING ,YACHT RACING
Size
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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