5 fascinating works to explore seas and abyss

5. A graphic story: “the long road”

By Stéphane Melchior and Younn Locard, after Bernard Moitessier
Gallimard BD, 344 p. ; € 29.

In 1968, the British weekly Sunday Times Organizes the first race around the world to sail, solo and non -stop. Bernard Moitessier, who has already produced some exploits with his boat Joshua, decides to participate. It will neither be for money, nor for celebrity, nor for victory, only for loneliness, the sea and the boat.

In August, he rushes from Plymouth (Great Britain). Six months later, when he has just spent Cape Horn (Chile) in record time and has only the Atlantic to go up to complete the adventure and find his partner Françoise, he decides … to continue his journey.

In this ample and magnificent graphic story, the authors make us approach as close as possible to the daily life of the unclassifiable man that was Bernard Moitessier.

Over the course of technical considerations, reflections on the march of the world, readings and moments of contemplation translated by vibrant life drawings, we follow the introspective rhythm of navigation.

Will we want to come back to the port?

Victor Macé de Lépinay

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