"Dramatic... Powerful... Remarkable... Derek Lundy's riveting and wonderfully expressive chronicle... is also a compelling example of creative non-fiction at its best." -- The Ottawa Citizen
"Superb and engaging..." -- The Globe and Mail "Mr. Lundy is a champion explainer -- always simple, eloquent, and arrestingly vivid. You could follow him, and share in the elation and terror that he describes so well, even if you'd never been aboard a sailboat in your life." -- Jonathan Raban "Riveting, often frightening... Godforsaken Sea digs into the psychology of extreme sports.... Lundy tries to understand why these men and women do what they do [and] recreates the moments when their self-control is overwhelmed by chaos." -- The Toronto Star "Will excite the imagination of armchair adventurers and sailors of all stripes." -- The Halifax Daily News "Godforsaken Sea defies categorisation with the same facility with which it induces fascination. It is simply a great book. Lundy's mixture of philosophy, psychology, meteorology, and physics is always embroidered by the human element. Their hope, fear and pain seem like staging posts on a spiritual journey." -- The Herald (Glasgow) "One of the best books ever written about sailing." -- Time "The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing.... As tight and gripping a read as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A breathtaking, often terrifying look at the Vendée Globe race." -- The Gazette "In his eloquent Godforsaken Sea ... Lundy not only makes stirring narrative drama but also draws the lineaments of an archetypal hero, a human driven by fear, addicted to adrenalin, in need of the edge." -- The New York TimesIn the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, an intensely gripping account of the round-the-world single-handed yacht race that claimed the life of Canadian sailor Gerry Roufs in a make-or-break dash through 12,000 miles of terror in the Southern Ocean.
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