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The Incredible Voyage: The Round-the-world Adventures of a Young Sailor and a Seafaring Chicken Paperback – 10 September 2024

Guirec Soude . Greystone Books . English

“Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping … readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.”—BOOKLIST A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before. His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique. Guirec never intended to sail the world with a chicken, but after reaching the Caribbean, he and Monique made for Greenland—and emerged from the pack ice 100 days later. Their next goal? San Francisco. Then, Antarctica. But first, could they navigate the treacherous Northwest Passage? One thing was for sure: Monique would help her trusty skipper by laying an egg! Heart-stopping adventure story: navigating treacherous icebergs with a chicken on the mast is just one of many nail-biting maneuvers from this action-packed book. Perfect for readers of The Art of Racing in the Rain: Guirec and Monique’s bond is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Inspirational: Guirec shows that all you have to do is believe to achieve something big. Photographs and maps: show the epic voyage and provide breaks in the text.Guirec and Monique’s unbelievable journey won the hearts of people all over the world and caused a social media frenzy when it happened. Now, in their long-awaited first book, readers will uncover their gripping voyage from start to finish.

Categories: Action & Adventure

About the Author

David Warriner translates from French to English and nurtures a healthy passion for Franco, Nordic and British crime fiction. He is a member of the UK Society of Authors, Translators Association (SoA, TA), the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC), and has published a range of fiction, nonfiction, and children's fiction titles. David Warriner's translation of Roxanne Bouchard's We Were the Salt of the Sea was shortlisted and awarded Runner-Up for the 2020 Scott Moncrieff Prize for French-to-English translation. David's translation of Johana Gustawsson's thriller Blood Song was longlisted for the 2020 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation, and his translation of Roxanne Bouchard's mystery The Coral Bride was longlisted for the 2021 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation. David grew up in northern England and developed incurable Francophilia at an early age. Emerging from Oxford with a modern languages degree, he narrowly escaped the graduate rat race by hopping on a plane to Canada – and never looked back. More than a decade into a high-powered commercial translation career, he listened to his heart and turned his focus back to the delicate art of literary translation. David has lived in France and Quebec, and he now has one foot in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley and the other somewhere between London and Paris.

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