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{{a|book review|[[File:Teignmouth Electron.jpg|thumb| | {{a|book review|[[File:Teignmouth Electron.jpg|thumb|450px|center|The ''Teignmouth Electron'' now abandoned on [[Cayman]] Brac]]}}{{br|The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst}} — {{author|Nicholas Tomalin}} | ||
==Alone, alone, all all alone, alone on a wide wide sea== | ==Alone, alone, all all alone, alone on a wide wide sea== | ||
This is a wonderful book about a truly remarkable, moving and literally tragic misadventure. I first stumbled across Donald Crowhurst’s story through a terrific Channel 4 feature film, Deep Water, and was so captivated by it that I bought this and another account of the race (fellow competitor Bernard Moitessier’s ''The Long Way'' (which, for the record, doesn’t really touch on the Crowhurst story)). | This is a wonderful book about a truly remarkable, moving and literally tragic misadventure. I first stumbled across Donald Crowhurst’s story through a terrific Channel 4 feature film, Deep Water, and was so captivated by it that I bought this and another account of the race (fellow competitor Bernard Moitessier’s ''The Long Way'' (which, for the record, doesn’t really touch on the Crowhurst story)). | ||