Missing the Boat
Chasing a Childhood Sailing Dream
Seiten
2010
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-955234-5 (ISBN)
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-955234-5 (ISBN)
The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure.
Yacht racing. It's about the yachts, the people, the regattas, and just what it was like to dive back into a world that had become entirely alien.
Michael Hutchinson won the Best First Book at the British Sports Book Awards.
The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure.
Yacht racing. A world of privilege and money. Beautiful women, bronzed men, and Simon le Bon explaining that he used to be in a band.
It's not like that for everyone. Somewhere much, much further down the ladder it all looks very different. As a teenager, Michael Hutchinson raced tiny plywood dinghies on Belfast Lough, amid shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish. For him, sailing became the kind of obsession that often as not ends with a psychiatric intervention. Turning pro was his only dream.
Then, at the age of eighteen, driven to despair by his own unremitting mediocrity, he gave up. But he never stopped dreaming about it - what was he missing out on? How good or bad had he really been? Had it really been a wasted youth? At last, fifteen years later, he went back.
Missing the Boat is the story of his comeback season, on the South Coast of England, in Ireland, and in the glamorous resorts of the Mediterranean. It's about the yachts, the people, the regattas, and just what it was like to dive back into a world that had become entirely alien.
Michael Hutchinson won the Best First Book at the British Sports Book Awards.
Yacht racing. It's about the yachts, the people, the regattas, and just what it was like to dive back into a world that had become entirely alien.
Michael Hutchinson won the Best First Book at the British Sports Book Awards.
The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure.
Yacht racing. A world of privilege and money. Beautiful women, bronzed men, and Simon le Bon explaining that he used to be in a band.
It's not like that for everyone. Somewhere much, much further down the ladder it all looks very different. As a teenager, Michael Hutchinson raced tiny plywood dinghies on Belfast Lough, amid shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish. For him, sailing became the kind of obsession that often as not ends with a psychiatric intervention. Turning pro was his only dream.
Then, at the age of eighteen, driven to despair by his own unremitting mediocrity, he gave up. But he never stopped dreaming about it - what was he missing out on? How good or bad had he really been? Had it really been a wasted youth? At last, fifteen years later, he went back.
Missing the Boat is the story of his comeback season, on the South Coast of England, in Ireland, and in the glamorous resorts of the Mediterranean. It's about the yachts, the people, the regattas, and just what it was like to dive back into a world that had become entirely alien.
Michael Hutchinson won the Best First Book at the British Sports Book Awards.
Michael Hutchinson became a full-time cyclist in 2000 after becoming disillusioned with an academic career. Over the following six years he has won more than twenty national titles, and the gold medal in the Masters' Pursuit World Championships. He is now a writer and journalist (and cyclist) and lives in south London. His book on the hour cycling record, The Hour, was published by Yellow Jersey in paperback in 2007. He is now a writer and journalist and lives in Cambridge.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 180 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-09-955234-5 / 0099552345 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-09-955234-5 / 9780099552345 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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