Ice Bird: The Classic Story of the First Single-Handed Voyage to Antarctica

David Lewis and his small yacht Ice Bird set sail from Sydney Australia on a search for high adventure. The voyage full of drama emotion and pain takes place in the least hospitable and most fascinating part of the earth the Antarctic. No one had ever sailed a yacht single-handed to Antarctica until David Lewis attempt. Along the way he would not touch land for more than fourteen weeks facing mountainous seas constant gales snow storms and freezing temperatures. Twice his small yacht was capsized and once it was dismasted 3500 miles from help. His survival was a miracle of fortitude skill and some luck. Ice Bird is one of the great true sea stories of the twentieth century. It is also a tale of human endurance a testimony of one mans will to overcome almost anything and everythinguphysical and psychologicaluto stay alive....See More