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<blockquote data-quote="Sheikh Yerbouti" data-source="post: 791064" data-attributes="member: 9093"><p>This one is up next:</p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Voyage-Crowhurst-Sailors-Classics/dp/0071414290/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263801454&sr=8-1">The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Sailor's Classics: Amazon.co.uk: Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall, Jonathan Raban: Books</a></p><p></p><p>True story about a mad/genius inventor driven to near bankruptcy who decides his best way out of trouble is to enter a single-handed round the world yacht race. He designs & builds his own "revolutionary" craft & sets off, with all appearing to go swimmingly, until one day his radio transmissions just stop.</p><p></p><p>It later turns out he'd actually barely got started and had been faking his positions, log entries & radio transmissions for weeks. He was planning on just fucking lying about the whole thing, pretending he'd gone round the world quicker than anyone else & claiming first prize. This all came to light when they found his boat drifting in the Atlantic with nobody on board. His log books (real and fake) were on board though, and the entries at the end show that he pretty much just went completely mental and topped himsen instead.</p><p></p><p>Crazy mad inventor, proper British eccentricity, balls of pure granite, a scam of magnificent audacity, hopeless failure, total mental breakdown, mysterious unexplained death. What more could you want from a book than that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheikh Yerbouti, post: 791064, member: 9093"] This one is up next: [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Voyage-Crowhurst-Sailors-Classics/dp/0071414290/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263801454&sr=8-1]The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Sailor's Classics: Amazon.co.uk: Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall, Jonathan Raban: Books[/url] True story about a mad/genius inventor driven to near bankruptcy who decides his best way out of trouble is to enter a single-handed round the world yacht race. He designs & builds his own "revolutionary" craft & sets off, with all appearing to go swimmingly, until one day his radio transmissions just stop. It later turns out he'd actually barely got started and had been faking his positions, log entries & radio transmissions for weeks. He was planning on just fucking lying about the whole thing, pretending he'd gone round the world quicker than anyone else & claiming first prize. This all came to light when they found his boat drifting in the Atlantic with nobody on board. His log books (real and fake) were on board though, and the entries at the end show that he pretty much just went completely mental and topped himsen instead. Crazy mad inventor, proper British eccentricity, balls of pure granite, a scam of magnificent audacity, hopeless failure, total mental breakdown, mysterious unexplained death. What more could you want from a book than that? [/QUOTE]
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