Atlantic Adventure

In June 1962 Francis Chichester set out from Plymouth once again to cross the Atlantic single-handed in his 13-ton yacht Gipsy Moth III in an attempt to beat the 40-day record he set up himself in 1960. He succeeded and knocked nearly a week off his previous time. Chichester also made history on his voyage by keeping in daily contact with Britain by means of a small battery-operated radio-telephone which enabled <i>The Guardian</i> the sponsors of the voyage to publish daily extracts from his log. Edited by <i>The Guardian</i>'s Yachting Editor J. R. L. Anderson this book Chichester's own day-by-day narrative of that adventurous journey threatened by gales icebergs and fog is the drama of one man fighting his way alone across the North Atlantic. It is one of the great stories of the sea. 'a magnificent achievement' <i>Guardian</i> 'hard to put down' <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> 'good-natured informal and totally unpretentious book' <i>Observer</i>