Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit by Jesse Martin

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Tail right front cover corner is now protected with book tape. Pages are sunned. Body text and binding are still very good.

Jesse Martin tells the story of his experiences after setting sail from Melbourne, Australia, on December 7, 1998, aboard his thirty-four-foot yacht, Lionheart, to become the youngest person, at eighteen, ever to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.

After learning to sail at the age of fourteen, he travelled along Australia's tropical coast on a flimsy catamaran. By sixtteen he had kayaked through the remote islands off Papua New Guinea and crewed on a yacht sailing from Belize to Tahiti. But the biggest adventure of them all was yet to come.

An inspirational take of courage and determination, danger, loneliness, and joy. Above all, it's a story full of wonder at our capacity, as human beings, to stretch far beyond our reach and attain the seemingly unattainable.