{"product_id":"tamata-and-the-alliance-a-memoir","title":"Tamata and the Alliance A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating memoir spans the time from Moitessier's magical childhood in Vietnam to months before his death, is a beautifully written saga of physical adventure and spiritual growth. Born in the French Indochina in 1925, Bernard Moitessier grew up astride two cultures--French and Vietnamese--in a turbulent era that moved dramatically from peace to war. Imprisoned during the Japanese occupation, he was later drafted to fight the Viet Minh in a French war that foreshadowed America's own Vietnam involvement two decades later. Tamata tells how the 25-year-old Moitessier left Vietnam to answer the call of the sea. He led the life of a sea-gypsy, wandering the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic, and the Caribbean, learning the ways of boats and the sea and surviving two catastrophic shipwrecks. His greatest sailing adventures followed, the Tahiti-Alicante passage and his ten month round-the-world solo voyage in 1969 when he withdrew from the Golden Globe Race and sailed on to Tahiti. Moitessier then spent three years on a remote atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago. Called \"Tamata\" (\"try it \") by his Tuamotu friends, he built a Polynesian-style house, planted coconut trees, and gradually transformed the sun-blasted coral into a speck of green in the middle of the South Pacific. After living in the United States, he spent the last years of his life in France. He is buried in a small fishing village in Brittany.\u003cbr\u003e\nDimensions: 0 x 0\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor: Bernard Moitessier\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9781853107382\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 378\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129897734297,"sku":"3RF9781853107382","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/697ce1ad1e5d7_Tamata_and_the_Alliance_A_Memoir.jpg?v=1770041832","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/tamata-and-the-alliance-a-memoir","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}