Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Greatest Disaster in Modern Sailing History
Nick Ward, with Sinead O'Brien. . Bloomsbury, $24.95 (186pp) ISBN 978-1-59691-455-1
Raised in the 1960s in the village of Hamble on England's south coast, Ward was given sailing lessons by his father by the age of four and quickly grew to love the water. Given that Hamble was near the launching point for a 600-mile race called Fastnet, it's little surprise that come August of 1979 Ward leaped at the opportunity to take part. He describes the race, which killed 15 racers and sank five boats. He tells of what happened when his craft, the
Reviewed on: 05/21/2007
Genre: Nonfiction