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  • MediaDB / «Age is not a hindrance" William Willis: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 1969 / American sailor William Willis made two solo voyages unprecedented in the history of navigation. In 1954, he set sail from the mountainous coast of Peru to the islands of Polynesia on the balsa raft "Seven Sisters". Three and a half months later, having covered almost seven thousand miles, he reached the Samoan Islands. For another person, such a voyage, full of dramatic adventures, would be enough for a lifetime, but not Willis. Nine years after his first odyssey, he undertakes an even more ambitious voyage - from the shores of Peru to Australia - on a metal raft, not without humor called "Age is no barrier." In two hundred and four days of sailing, Willis covered eleven thousand miles in the deserted expanses of the greatest ocean on our planet. The reader will find a story about this extraordinary voyage, about the amazing courage and unbending will of the navigator in the proposed book. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers.