Bold Man of the Sea. My Epic Journey

JIM SHEKHDAR with EDWARD GRIFFITSH

ISBN 10: 0340821701 / ISBN 13: 9780340821701

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988

A propos de cet article

"Through nine eventful months at sea, the 54 year old man travelled more than 10,000 miles from South America to Queensland and became the first person ever to row single handed across the Pacific Ocean" NOT PRICE CLIPPED, clean blue boards with bright silver titling to spine, map to endpapers, NO INSCRIPTIONS, 255pp, illustrated with colour photographs, EXCELLENT COPY, CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 106212; 8vo (large).

N° de réf. du vendeur 106212

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Bold Man of the Sea. My Epic Journey
• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0340821701
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780340821701
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

During an action-packed 274 days at sea, Jim Shekhdar became the first person to row across the Pacific Ocean single-handedly. This is the story of his epic journey. The journey started out badly, he was refused permission to set off from Chile, then when he set off from Peru he found he'd left the tin opener behind. Later Jim also ran out of cooking gas. More bad fortune was to beset Jim as he had to fend off sharks, have his telecommunications fail him and nearly lose his life to an oil tanker. And then 150 yards out from his journey's end, Jim had to refuse offers of help so as not to invalidate his record attempt.

À propos de l?auteur

Jim Shekhdar was born in 1946 in Leamington Spa. Trained as a civil engineer, he worked on the M4 motorway in England, a variety of projects in Australia, roads in New Zealand and New Guinea, airports in Zaire and flats in the United Arab Emirates. Most recently he has worked in computers. He rowed across the Atlantic with David Jackson in 1997. He was scheduled for a hip replacement operation, but postponed it for his epic Pacific journey.