Lonely Sea and Sky
Lonely Sea and Sky The complete autobiography of the great adventurer Sir Francis Chichester, the first and fastest man to singlehandedly circumnavigate the globeAged18 and with a taste for…
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Lonely Sea and Sky
The complete autobiography of the great adventurer Sir Francis Chichester, the first and fastest man to singlehandedly circumnavigate the globeAged18 and with a taste for adventure, Francis Chichester emigrated to New Zealand with ten pounds in his pocket. 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. He tried his hand at a number of ill-fated careers a boxer, shepherd, lumberjack, and gold prospector, to name a few before returning to England.
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. Shortly afterward, he survived a near-death catastrophe in an attempt to fly solo around the world. In 1967, he became the first person to sail around the world solo from west to east
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