Ice Bird: The First Single-Handed Voyage to Antarctica

by David Lewis

Book Overview

Imagine sailing alone for 14 weeks in freezing temperatures aboard a 32-foot sailboat. Imagine your boat capsizing three times, and losing your mast and rigging. And imagine doing all this without... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393031853
• ISBN13: 9780393031850
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful adventure by a very brave man.

I owned a copy of this book,years ago, but can not find it. A thrilling story about his circumnavigaton of Antartica, alone, in a small steel hulled sailing vessel. Foolhardy or brave? I never could say, for sure. If memory serves, he did not take a transmitting radio, only a receiver for news and weather reports. He said that anyone foolish enough to undertake such a journey, should not be able to broadcast a distress. He sailed '' the wrong way'' (against the winds or currents, of the roaring forties. His story underlines the problems and solutions such a feat produces. Well worth the time and effort to obtain this book! (whether you believe his undertaking was foolish or not). A must read. (By: W.R.Bell, '' Squadcar54@aol.com '' 4-7-1999, St.Pete, FL. *end

A book of courage and exhilaration

In all my life I can not remeber reading any book more than once. The exception is David Lewis's book, I have read it many times over the years only stopping when eventually it fell apart and was tossed out by my wife. In his book, Lewis describes his attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the Antartica. Through a lack of funds he is forced to make this voyage in a small yacht, with none of the luxuries that are available to modern yachtsman. His humble account of the terrible suffering that he must of endured certainly helps to put ones own life into perspective. This is a great book about a monumental adventure by a very courageous man and is a must read for anyone who can find a copy.