Alone Across The Atlantic

<i>A brave man in a small boat alone on a big sea . . </i>.Sir Francis Chichester was a courageous explorer and gifted navigator. Six years before his epic solo voyage around the world in <i>Gipsy Moth IV</i> so vividly captured in <i>Gipsy Moth Circles the World</i> and at the age of 59 Chichester took part in the 1960 Singlehanded Transatlantic Race in <i>Gipsy Moth III</i>. During the forty days the voyage took Chichester kept a diary in which he shared his fears and moments of exhilaration. The result is both a practical tale about Gipsy Moth III's sailing victory and a day-by-day sharing of adventure by her skipper.