Taking on the World

Ellen MacArthur

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Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Неизползвана книга - леко захабен външен вид.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Penguin Books
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 2003 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 395
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Мемоари, биографии, писма
Тегло (гр.):: 334
Ширина (мм):: 130
Височина (мм):: 200
Дебелина (мм):: 30
ISBN:: 9780141006970

When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes people feel like they can do anything! This is her story, written intrue Ellen style, in her own words, without the help of a ghost writer. Passionate, dramatic and and deeply affecting, her story will move and inspire all who read it. * Review: When Ellen MacArthur became the youngest person ever to complete yachting's most gruelling race, the Vendée Globe, she also assured herself of a place in sporting history as the fastest woman ever to circumnavigate the globe. As the world watched the images of her disasters and triumphs aboard her boat, MacArthur swiftly entered that pantheon of sportsmen and women whose emotional life we came to share over and above their achievements in their chosen field. We strove against the elements with her, we suffered with her when disaster loomed--and, finally, we could all take vicarious pleasure in her ultimate triumph. This autobiography proves to have been more than worth the wait. The insights we are granted here into just what MacArthur went through genuinely tug at the heart--and never in any sentimental or manipulative way. Her very air of "ordinariness" (no film-star looks, no breast-beating egomania as in all too many sports personalities) was refreshing, but it's that monumental endurance and skill she demonstrated on her epic voyage that commands our admiration. The earlier sections of the book, detailing her childhood in Derbyshire (quite some distance from the sea) may have us impatient for her great ocean adventure, but they're skilfully and affectingly written. And when she begins her preparations for the Vendée Globe, we take a deep breath, knowing that we'll experience all the arduous adventure and danger that is facing her. Some may argue that autobiographies are being written by younger and younger authors, with their lives still ahead of them. But surely (in this case) the timing is perfect. --Barry Forshaw ** ABOUT THE AUTHOR Inspired by a sailing trip with her aunt on the East Coast when she was four, Ellen MacArthur saved her school-dinner money for eight years to buy her first boat, an 8-foot dinghy called Thr'penny Bit. A bout of glandular fever in her final year at school ended her plans to become a vet. But, transfixed by scenes from the Whitbread Race being shown on television while she convalesced, she resolved to become a sailor instead. Aged eighteen, she won the ВТ/YJA Young Sailor of the Year award. She sailed round the coast of Britain in her 21-foot boat Iduna, the following year. In 1997 she raced singlehanded across the Atlantic and was named ВТ/YJA Yachtsman of the Year 1998. In finishing the Vendee Globe round-the-world race in just ninety-four days she became the fastest Briton ever to sail around the world alone. She was crowned FICO World Champion, was named Sunday Times Person of the Year 2001 and runner-up in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. At the end of 2002 she won the Route du Rhum single-handed transatlantic race. She began 2003 as skipper of a crew that attempted to break the Jules Verne round-the-world record until a broken mast in the Southern Ocean thwarted their efforts. Ellen MacArthur lives in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. This is her first book, and in true Ellen style she wrote every word herself, without the help of a ghostwriter.

Ключови думи: книги на английски език, автобиография, ветроходство, елън макартър