UBS: 'Thanks for this advice, that’s fine we will keep on looking for it at this end, and/or when we can get another copy from overseas we will let you know. Why don’t you telephone them? Alternatively find a replacement for me. Perhaps you should try harder to locate it. Sorry - I don’t want a refund - I want my book. As you know it is “hard to find” being a hard back book.

'Thanks for your email, however it doesn’t give me my book. If we don’t hear from them in the next couple of days we will refund you in full for your purchase. We remain hopeful we will hear from them and then your book will be on its way to you.

The tracking information shows they have received your book, but we haven’t had a reply as yet. We have emailed this customer twice requesting they notify us when they received your book so we could provide a courier booking for transfer to you. It was actually sent in error to another customer (along with their book sent separately). UBS 'Hi David, I am sorry to email you with an update on your book. Chichester then sat down to write one of the great narratives of modern voyaging. It was an amazing performance that he was sixty-five years old made it the more so. He completed the voyage with just one stop and 226 days at sea.

It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure.įrancis Chichester's 1967 singlehanded circumnavigation set a blazing record for speed. The story of how the sixty-five-year-old navigator singlehandedly circumnavigated the globe, the whole way battling hostile seas as well as his boat's numerous design flaws, is a tale of superhuman tenacity and endurance to be read and reread by sailors and armchair adventurers alike.įirst published in 1967, just months after the completion of Chichester's historic journey, Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an instant international best-seller. Among the handful of such tales to emerge in the twentieth century, one of the most enduring surely must be Sir Francis Chichester's account of his solitary, nine-month journey around the world in his 53-foot ketch Gipsy Moth IV. From time immemorial, few narrative genres have had the power to so stir the emotions or captivate the imagination as the true account of a lone adventurer's triumph over the titanic forces of nature.

Gipsy moth circles the world