"Fastnet, force 10"
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When the gale swept over Ireland during Monday night, it seemed like any other summer storm that catches a few boats out in the Western Approaches to England.
About this book
This is a sea story, and it is true. It is the story of how fifteen people died, not in wartime, or on a hunt for whales, or in a typhoon in the South China Sea, but during a yacht race only seventy miles off the coast of England.
Themes & subjects
Fastnet Yacht RaceFastnet RaceBoats and boatingYacht racingSports, great britainFastnet Race. (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001096045 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n2001096045
First published 1980About the author
John Rousmaniere
1944
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