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Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing

This is a sea story, and it is true. It is the story of how fifteen people died, not in wartime, or on a hunt for whales, or in a typhoon in the South China Sea, but during a yacht race only seventy miles off the coast of England.

Subject
history
Genre
adventure
Themes
nauticalsurvivaltravel
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 287 pages

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