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The Race: The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition
Provides an action-packed account of an extreme non-stop sailing race around the world, a competition that attracted competitors willing to risk millions of dollars and their lives to voyage around the world in fragile sailing vessels in record time, and chronicles the turbulent history of extreme sailing, from the nineteenth century to the present day. 35,000 first printing.