GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD the sixty Five year Old Navigator's own account of His 226 Day Lone Voyage Including the Conquest of Cape Horn Gymnastics (Books) exquisite line drawings and complete

exquisite line drawings and complete maps of every battle and skirmish fought in by Richard Sharpe

just a civil servant he works with

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bearing an uncanny resemblance to Hilary Knight's illustrated namesake

This program also brings you behind the scenes with an additional 30-minute feature that explores how scientists have been able to trace this incredible life story

GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD the sixty Five year Old Navigator's own account of His 226 Day Lone Voyage Including the Conquest of Cape Horn Gymnastics (Books) exquisite line drawings and completeThis work tells the story of Frances Chichester, who aged 65, set out alone from Plymouth in his 53 foot ketch "Gypsy Moth VI" in August 1966 and sailed eastward around the world through the wild Southern Ocean, stopping only once the first to accomplish this in Sydney. Only nine yachts had previously circumnavigated by way of Cape Horn, and of them six had been capsized or somersaulted at least once. This 28,000 mile voyage, completed in May 1967,