Why read A Voyage for Madmen?

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Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th Anniversary

It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an…

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Circumnavigation

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Travel

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Why read it?

1 author picked A Voyage for Madmen as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Carol Newman Cronin

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I loved the descriptions of the sailors who pioneered a singlehanded, non-stop sailing race around the world—especially as I’m watching the 2024-25 Vendée Globe race.

So much has changed since the 1968 race covered by this book, but the human grit required to meet such an incredible challenge remains.

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