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read this nonfiction depicting daybyday illustrated story of Ellen MacArthur's circumnavigating solo in, leaving it at that on Octoberdue to my less motive.
However, I found this book drawn on "personal logs, emails, audio and video diaries" back cover excitingly challenging in its own right since her narrations would inform her readers what happened, how she felt, how she solved problems, etc.
along her unimaginable route in the high seas and oceans indays,hours,minutes andseconds,

Published with high quality paper, this book having its Penguin paperback size since its length and width are similar to Vladimir Nabokov's "Transparent Things" Penguinshould be more readerfriendly regarding its fonts, that is, they should be larger.
All of its blackandwhite and colour photographs are delightful to see with, of course, admiration to the job well done by her professional team of photographers, sketchers and computer graphics programmers.


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A day by day diary of the record breaking solo circumnavigation of the globe,
It mostly reads like a blow by blow weather forecast and commentary crossed with a strung out, stressed and anxious fight to keep going the text is generally, very repetitive.

There are some occasional interesting snippets of vulnerabilityEllen's thoughts, feelings, and her deep appreciation of the wildness and beauty all around her which break the adrenaline charged monotony of the text.
If that isn't oxymoronic!
The best of these describe her time in the Southern Ocean,
For example

"I don't think anyone should go to the Southern Ocean without having some fear of it.
It's a very, very desolate place, You're at the end of the earth, in the middle of nowhere, noone really lives here, the sea is unbelievable, it's like sailing over mountains, Like driving an all terrain vehicle very fast over mountains"

However, along with the technical jargon, particularly regarding sails this means that overall this book is probably most interesting to those who were already interested before reading it.

It does give an insight into what it takes though, and this is one very, very tough lady, who's sailing skills far outweigh her literary prowess

I couldn't figure out why pictures show two distinctly different multihulls! Did she change livery as well as sails en route The idea of reading the account of Ellen MacArthur's amazing world record for solo sailing around the world really intrigued me as I had read some other adventuretype books for a change of pace from my normal murder / thriller menu.
A review of the book is probably best done in two sections: the photographs and the text,
The photographs are outstanding and really give the reader the feeling of remoteness, isolation and desolation that Ellen must have encountered, The pictures of the boat BampQ are amazing with superb colour which contrasts fantastically with the complete grey blanket of the sea and sky during times of awful weather.
The iceberg is one of my favourites too,
The words are written almost on the basis of A few notes, a bit like a diary, that Ellen has conjured up at the end of each day, indeed there are a few paragraphs for each day.
And basically that is it, other than an introduction and a short epilogue, Ellen's account also comes across as one big long moan: it's to cold, it's too hot, it's too windy, there's not enough wind, I can't sleep, I can't eat etc.
etc. . There's also the constant pessimism that she won't break the record, even when she's five days in front and that her weather will be worse than current record holder Francis before she embarked on her attempt.
The result is rather boring and meant that I had little empathy for Ellen, basically if you don't like the conditions, this is a round the world solo sailing record attempt at the end of the day, THEN DON'T DO ITStay at home and get a normaltojob and I bet you'll have something to really moan about then!
In summary the text's just about ok but the photographs are amazing.

Dame MacArthurs diary of herattempt to become the fastest person and first woman ever to sail solo round the world, She cut Francis Joyon's record in a superhuman effort by one day, Joyon regained the record intakingdays off Macarthur's record, . . It is a good read but does not reach the quality of 'Takin on the World' Loved it! Just after,on the night of Februaryth, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off

Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world.
The record was held by a frenchman, Francis Joyon, He'd slashed overdays off the previous record and many thought his extraordinary new benchmark would stand foryears or more, Most experts thought that the record would be beyond MacArthur, But in a superhuman effort that forced her to dig deeper than ever before, she proved the doubters wrong, Her effort captured the world's imagination and the scenes that greeted her return to Falmouth were euphoric, She had become, some claimed, the finest sailor her country had every produced, Drawing on logs, emails, sound and video diaries, this beautifully designed, fully illustrated book captures the drama, excitement, danger, joy and tears of a truly extraordinary achievement in Ellen's own words.
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