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Around the world in seventy-nine days


Year: 1996
Language: english
Author: Cam Lewis
Genre: Textbook
Publisher: ‎ Delta
Edition: First
ISBN: ‎ 978-038531326
Format: PDF & EPUB
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 346
Description: The invigorating story of a real-life race to  sail around the world--and break the fictitious  record set in Jules Verne's 1873 novel--in seventy-nine  days.
In Jules Verne's historic  novel Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg  and Jean Passepartout race at break-neck speed to  circle the globe in eighty days. Around  The World In Seventy-Nine Days is the  true story of Cam Lewis, who set out to better the  impossible pace set by Verne's illustrious  characters. Along with Bruno Peyron, one of France's most  famous sailors, and a small crew of Frenchmen  aboard the Commodore Explorer, Lewis set  sail.
A world champion sailor, Lewis's spirits and  patience were often tested by communication  difficulties with the French-speaking crew, midnight  steering shifts, fatigue, frustration, and fifty-foot  waves that threatened to smash the boat. Fearing  for his life, Lewis grappled with the idea that he  might never again see his fiance--or the unborn  child that she was carrying. This fascinating  chronicle of a world-class journey illuminates not only  the struggle to maintain endurance and faith, but  the will to achieve greatness no matter what the  odds.
Additional info: The canny authors of this memoir about a real-life race to sail around the world exploit to the fullest its rather tenuous connection with Jules Verne's classic adventure novel. In January 1993, a crew of four Frenchmen and one American-author Lewis, a professional American sailboat racer-set out to circumnavigate the globe in the Commodore Explorer, a multihull catamaran, and to best the fictional 19th-century 80-day record of Phileas Fogg and Passepartout. Of course Fogg et al. did not travel solely by water, so the routes were not analogous. Nor did they have the benefit of telexed weather reports, faxes or a press agent hovering nearby in a helicopter to pick up their film. However, the modern-day authors' decision to insert literally Verne's classic story into this narrative via copious (copyright-free) excerpts occupying almost half the book does pay off, infusing the breezy writing with a feeling of genuine adventure it otherwise lacks. Also enlivening Lewis's memoir are observations on a variety of related topics, ranging from famous explorers to a detailed explanation of longitude and latitude. Lewis's real-life experiences-his difficulties in communicating with the French-speaking crew, loss of sleep, rough seas and primitive facilities-are far less exciting than the enthralling drama of his fictional counterpart. But the combination of both stories is a winning one.

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