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Goss, Pete Close to the Wind.
New York Carroll & Graf Publishers 1998 0786706074 / 9780786706075 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
273 pages, 8 plates, cloth, DJ, very good. From Booklist: "Yachting's aristocratic aura dissipates in this sailor's story of his participation in the sport. Goss is just a sailing enthusiast who after his severance from Britain's Royal Marines discovered in himself the fund-raising and public relations skills necessary to enter a boat in a transoceanic sailing race. There are several such contests regaled herein, but the most important one this book is about made Goss a hero in France and England. The Vendee Globe is an incredibly arduous solo circumnavigation race, a jousting match with Neptune often fatal to its entrants. Goss foiled one thrust of the trident in the 1996^-97 Vendee, when, in the Southern Ocean, an Australian search-and-rescue unit vectored him toward the foundering hull of a French competitor, whom he pulled half-frozen from the water. Goss' authenticity is as remarkable to readers as his sailing resourcefulness must be to sailors, and aficionados of adventure narratives will appreciate being vectored toward his attention-holding account, dashed with self-deprecatory jauntiness. " PM133 ; 273 pages
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