Saved / Tony Bullimore.
By: Bullimore, Tony [author.].
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BookPublisher: London : Little, Brown, [1997]Description: 256 pages, [16]pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map,color ports ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0316641502 (hardback).Subject(s): Bullimore, Tony | Sailors -- Great Britain -- Biography | Yachting accidents -- Antarctic Ocean | Airplane crash survival
| Search and rescue operations -- AntarcticaDDC classification: 797.1246092
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This autobiography tells the story of both one of the most amazing feats of modern survival and also of the extraordinary efforts of the Australian rescue services and HMAS Adelaide, which on 10th January 1997 pulled lone sailor Tony Bullimore from the Southern Ocean. Bullimore had spent nearly five days sheltering in an air pocket in the upturned hull of his yacht. Despite losing the tip of his left little finger and suffering from hypothermia, dehydration and frostbite, he was in remarkably good shape. This is his own story; of his attempt to complete the Vendee Globe round-the-world race in his yacht, of his life at home in Bristol, and of his instincts for survival in the middle of the ocean, 1500 miles southwest of Australia.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Anthony Maurice Frederick Bullimore was born in Southend-on-Sea, England on January 15, 1939. He owned a nightclub called the Bamboo Club from 1966 until a fire forced its closing in 1977. He also had an import-export business. He entered his first solo trans-Atlantic race in 1976 and was England's Yachtsman of the Year in 1985. At the age of 57, he undertook the 1996-97 Vendée Globe, a solo around-the-world yacht race, in a 60-foot ketch named the Exide Challenger. A storm in the Southern Ocean caused his sailboat to capsize and he was trapped for four days underneath the sailboat before being rescued. His book, Saved, was published in 1997. He died from cancer on July 31, 2018 at the age of 79.(Bowker Author Biography)