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Buy this book on-line CHERRY, VIVIEN with WHEATLEY, KEITH: : Woman of Steel. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.ADLARD COLES NAUTICAL,1993. ISBN 0713637951.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but co-author
(subject) signed and inscribed:'Best Wishes Vivien Cherry' to half-title-page, and price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,bright,
clean,glossy laminated colour photographic
dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.
Publisher's original blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white
eps.8vo,contents list,double-page b/w map (The British Steel Challenge 1992-1993 yacht race),preface,HRH Princess Royal foreword,5 parts - pre-race+Legs 1-4 comprising 15 chapters,8pp colour photographs in 2 blocks of 4pp each, between pp68/9 and pp104/5 respectively, appendices (2).
Experts told Chay Blyth he was mad.No one
would pay £15,000 to be wet,cold and hungry,racing around the world in a yacht against the prevailing wind and currents.
Within 48 hours of the British Steel Challenge being announced Blyth had confounded the sceptics.He was sold out three times over and had his 130 crew volunteers.But what of the 10 skippers he hired to drive,cajole and coach the amateur helmsmen 28,000 miles around the globe? Although experienced racing sailors
in their own right,this small group were to be placed in a unique and taxing role.
Half nanny,half slavedriver,each skipper
discovered the true loneliness of command.
Vivien Cherry was the sole woman amongst the 10.At 32 she had a successful career as an environmental engineer and a background as a single-handed ocean racer when she signed up with the Challenge.
Instantly her yacht,Coopers & Lybrand, became the focus of intense media attention.
Each leg of the race presented its own difficulties - navigational and human.
Stopovers often presented more dramas than
the weeks at sea.And in mid-race Viv's own
leg became a factor when she became immobilised with a damaged knee needing immediate surgery.By the finish line in the Solent,the race that started with doubts ended with a fanfare.Vivien's journey was both a part of that voyage and
a compelling individual story of an unusual sailor in a unique situation.
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