The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
by Tomalin, Nicholas; Hall, Ron; Raban, JonathanEdition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2001-06-25
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Summary
In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from England to participate in the first single-handed nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, his boat was found in the mid-Atlantic, intact but with no one on board. In this gripping reconstruction, journalists Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall tell the story of Crowhurst's ill-fated voyage, up to his apparent decision to take his own life rather than be discovered as the would-be perpetrator of one of the biggest hoaxes in sailing history.
Author Biography
Nicholas Tomalin was literary editor for the New Statesman and a featured columnist for the Daily Express, the Sunday Times, and the Evening Standard of London. He was nominated Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the war in Vietnam. He was killed on the Golan Heights in 1973 while covering the Yom Kippur War Ron Hall is a leading British journalist. He was cofounder of the Sunday Times' (London) "Insight," where he was editor from 1964-66, and he became joint managing editor of the Sunday Times in 1969
Table of Contents
Introduction by Jonathan RabanAuthors' PrefacePrologueOne. The Bravest Boy of Them AllTwo. The Great RaceThree. The Revolutionary BoatFour. The Maiden VoyageFive. TeignmouthSix. The Last LetterSeven. The First Two Weeks at SeaEight. Two Conflicting TestimoniesNine. The Fraudulent RecordTen. The PlanEleven. ChristmasTwelve. Silence and LonelinessThirteen. The Secret LandingFourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
PrologueOne. The Bravest Boy of Them AllTwo. The Great RaceThree. The Revolutionary BoatFour. The Maiden VoyageFive. TeignmouthSix. The Last LetterSeven. The First Two Weeks at SeaEight. Two Conflicting TestimoniesNine. The Fraudulent RecordTen. The PlanEleven. ChristmasTwelve. Silence and LonelinessThirteen. The Secret LandingFourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Two. The Great RaceThree. The Revolutionary BoatFour. The Maiden VoyageFive. TeignmouthSix. The Last LetterSeven. The First Two Weeks at SeaEight. Two Conflicting TestimoniesNine. The Fraudulent RecordTen. The PlanEleven. ChristmasTwelve. Silence and LonelinessThirteen. The Secret LandingFourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Four. The Maiden VoyageFive. TeignmouthSix. The Last LetterSeven. The First Two Weeks at SeaEight. Two Conflicting TestimoniesNine. The Fraudulent RecordTen. The PlanEleven. ChristmasTwelve. Silence and LonelinessThirteen. The Secret LandingFourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Six. The Last LetterSeven. The First Two Weeks at SeaEight. Two Conflicting TestimoniesNine. The Fraudulent RecordTen. The PlanEleven. ChristmasTwelve. Silence and LonelinessThirteen. The Secret LandingFourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Eight. Two Conflicting TestimoniesNine. The Fraudulent RecordTen. The PlanEleven. ChristmasTwelve. Silence and LonelinessThirteen. The Secret LandingFourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Ten. The PlanEleven. ChristmasTwelve. Silence and LonelinessThirteen. The Secret LandingFourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Twelve. Silence and LonelinessThirteen. The Secret LandingFourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Fourteen. "Heading Digger Ramrez"Fifteen. Midnight OilSixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Sixteen. Win or Lose?Seventeen. The Inescapable TriumphEighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Eighteen. Into the Dark TunnelNineteen. The Cosmic MindTwenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Twenty. The Great Beauty of TruthEpilogue. And the World Said . . . Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Appendix 1. Donald Crowhurst's NavigationAppendix 2. The Design of Teignmouth ElectronAppendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
Appendix 3. Teignmouth Electron by Richard C. NewickAfterword by Robin Knox-Johnston
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