On April 22, 1969, the world watched as a small sailboat made landfall at Falmouth, England, completing a voyage of astonishing courage and endurance that would forever alter man's ongoing adventure with the sea. Ten months earlier, nine very different men had set off in small and ill-equipped boats, determined to do the impossible: sail around the world alone and without stopping. Only one of the nine would cross the finish line to win the race dubbed the Golden Globe, and to win also fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the rewards would be despair, madness, and death. A Voyage for Madmen is a remarkable story of lonely individuals pitted against the sea, men driven by their dreams and demons to live for months on end in a cabin no larger than the inside of a Volkswagen beetle.