Bernard Moitessier
1) The long way
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Bernard Moitessier was in the lead and nearing the finish of the Golden Cup -- a solo circumnavigation of the world -- when he abandoned the race and set his course for a personal journey that would conclude three months later in Tahiti.
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"I would like now to write a practical book that will cover three topics: boats, the sea, and the beachcombing life." These were the thought of Bernard Moitessier after he finished writing his last book, Tamata and the Alliance, while in Polynesia.
The great master died in 1994 and never completed the book, but here it is, meticulously collected from his many writings, published and unpublished, by his companion Véronique Lerebours Pigeonnière....