DUMAS, Vito.

Alone Through the Roaring Forties: The Voyage of Lehg II Round the World.

First Edition of Vito Dumas' Alone Through the Roaring Forties; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett

London: Adlard Coles Limited, 1960.

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First edition of the author's account of one of the most remarkable single-handed voyages ever recorded in the history of small boat voyaging. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, 8 plates and many line illustrations. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the front pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fosset was also one of sailing’s most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation’s highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine.

Here for the first time in English, Argentinian sailor Vito Dumas described his great voyage round the world through the roaring forties which he justly describes as "the impossible route." Dumas broke four records with the voyage: he was the first lone navigator to round the Horn and survive, the first to round the Horn from West to East, the first to sail by the "impossible route, and the only sailor to have sailed round the globe with only three landfalls.