The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall

The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall One of the best thrift-store finds of 2023 for me was a 303 page book about a man Hell bound for glory and his eventual mental health breakdown near the end of a race around the world in a small trimaran known as the Teignmouth Electron. The race officially began in late 1968 and ended tragically in July of 1969 about eight months after Donald Crowhurst began his journey. The biography makes no attempt from the very beginning to hide the fact that he died on during the voyage most likely from suicide. Then ensuing investigative story attempts to piece together as much of the truth as possible from the beginning to the end. From the time the idea was conceived to the time he set sail it was fairly easy for the authors to deduce the land based events by using documents, photography, film and interviews. Once Crowhurst left the pier all bets were off as to what happened during the entire voyage. Using radio m...