A World of My Own
Book (italiano):
<DIV><P>On Friday 14 June 1968 <I>Suhaili</I>, a tiny ketch, slipped almost<br>unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her<br>helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later <I>Suhaili</I>,<br>paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered and<br>brown, her self-steering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudder<br>head, came romping joyously back to Falmouth to a fantastic reception<br>for Robin, who had become the first man to sail round the world<br>non-stop single-handed. </P><br><P>By every standard it was an incredible adventure, perhaps the last<br>great uncomputerised journey left to man. Every hazard, every<br>temptation to abandon the astounding voyage came Robin's way, from<br>polluted water tanks, smashed cabin top and collapsed boom to lost<br>self-steering gear and sheered off tiller, and all before the tiny<br>ketch had fought her way to Cape Horn, the point of no return, the<br>fearsome test of any seaman's nerve and determination. </P><br><P><I>A World of My Own </I>is Robin's gripping, uninhibited, moving<br>account of one of the greatest sea adventures of our time. An instant<br>bestseller, it is now reissued for a new generation of readers to be<br>enthralled and inspired.</P></DIV>
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