"Woods, Stuart - Run Before The Wind" - читать интересную книгу автора (Woods Stuart)

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Copyright 1983 by Stuart Woods Published by arrangement with W.W.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 8214266

ISBN: 0-380-70507-9

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This book is for my friend and editor, Eric Swenson, who seems always
to have just the right proportions of faith and skepticism. (Well,
nearly always.)

PROLOGUE

THE THIRD OFFICER was the first to see the sail. He had been looking
for it.

He had seen mention of the race in Notices to Mariners, and he had been
hearing reports of its progress on the BBC World Service.

An Englishman--what was his name?--had been reported leading two days
before. The third officer, whose name was Martindale and who, himself,
was English, had hoped he might catch sight of some of the competitors,
and now he had a moment of excitement in an otherwise uneventful