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'No-one had sailed alone to Antarctica; I had long been obsessed with the fascination of the frozen southern continent; to reach it, relying entirely upon my own resources, was to accept the ultimate challenge of the sea.David Lewis set sail from Sydney on 19 October 1972. Fourteen weeks later ICE BIRD made landfall at the US Palmer Antarctic station, after surviving mountainous seas, constant gales, snow storms, freezing temperatures-and two capsizes which left her dismasted.The second leg began in December 1973-a perilous journey through pack-ice and towering bergs. Again, ICE BIRD capsized. But ten weeks later, exhausted and battered as ICE BIRD, David Lewis reached Cape Town.ICE BIRD is an enthralling account of one of the greatest small boat voyages of all time, and a testimony of man's will to overcome anything and everything to survive.'Puts him among the immortals in the literature ofthe sea! OXFORD MAIL'Dr. Lewis's incredible adventures in ICEBIRD are never likely to be matched!SUN HERALD ISBN:9780393031850
