David Lewis and his 32ft sloop Ice Bird set sail from Australia to Antarctica in 1972 . What started as high adventure became a fight for life against all the odds. Twice the yacht was capsized once was dismasted 3,500 miles away from help.
'Ice Bird: The Classic Story of the First Single-handed Voyage to Antarctica' is an account of one of the great small boat voyages of the 20th century.
223 pages. PB.