Updated 2002 edition. Paperback, very good condition.
Until his death in October 2002, it seemed nothing could stop David Lewis. His had been a truly remarkable life, all the more for it was only in his mid-forties that he decided to pack in his job as a doctor in the East End of London and set sail with his first two kids and second wife on the first multihull circumnavigation of the globs, an incredible journey of 38,000 miles. In the late 1960s, Lewis's adventuring took on a scientific focus with a groundbreaking crossing of the 1600 miles between tahiti and New Zealand using only the 'star-path' techniques of the traditional Polynesian navigators. His accomplishment shook conventional wisdom about the settlement of the Pacific to its very core. Later, he would undertake similar ventures in the Arctic realms of the Soviet Far East and Alaska, and in the Central Australian deserts. But it was in the 1970s and early 1980s that Lewis really made his mark in the world of adventure with his expeditions to Antarctica. First ther
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