{"product_id":"9780786707416","title":"Close to the Wind","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn November 3, 1996, former Royal Marine Pete Goss embarked on the most grueling competition in his sailing career: the Vendee Globe, a nonstop, single-handed round-the-world yacht race. For the next seven weeks he met every challenge in his stormy path, from combating waves the height of six-story buildings to grappling with his spinnaker in high winds. Then everything began going wrong: His sails were destroyed, his navigation equipment proved useless. And on Christmas Day his radio picked up a Mayday that a French competitor was sinking 160 miles away. Turning into the hurricane-force winds, Goss set out to rescue a near-dead man on a life raft somewhere in the vast wilderness of the merciless southern ocean. How he did it makes this extraordinary tale as amazing as it is thrilling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carroll \u0026 Graf Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49104816537827,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780786707416-1.jpg?v=1788352120","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780786707416","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}