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A Dip in the Ocean: Rowing Solo Across the Indian

✍ Scribed by Outen, Sarah

Book ID: 108062073
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 273 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781848394490

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✦ Synopsis

Aged eighteen with a taste for adventure, Francis Chichester emigrated to New Zealand with ten pounds in his pocket. He tried his hand as a boxer, shepherd, lumberjack and gold prospector, before returning to England.

Having qualified as a pilot, in 1929 he embarked on his most famous solo flight in the de Havilland Gipsy Moth from England to Australia. Shortly afterward, he would survive a near-death catastrophe in an attempt to fly solo around the world.

Turning to sailing, he won the first single-handed transatlantic yacht race in Gipsy Moth III, despite having been diagnosed with cancer two years previously. In 1967, he became the first person to sail around the world solo from west to east via the great capes.

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