by Bruno Peyron, Erik Orsenna, Marc Samson · Solar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782263031465
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«The Race. La course du millénaire» is the sports chronicle by Bruno Peyron, Erik Orsenna and Marc Samson, published by Solar in paperback and in French.
Chronicle of the round-the-world sailing race The Race, driven by Bruno Peyron as an unprecedented oceanic challenge for large catamarans. Erik Orsenna follows the daily progress of the event and portrays the blend of cutting-edge technology, speed records and human adventure that surrounded the race of the millennium.
The first edition dates from 2001 and the book has 344 pages, with the text in French.
For fans of ocean sailing and major offshore regattas, interested in the technological and human effort of a circumnavigation.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
