Книга: Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall «The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst»
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Производитель: "Hodder" In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunity to showcase his product. Few people knew that he wasn`t an experienced deep-water sailor. His progress was so slow that he decided to short-cut the journey, while falsifying his location through radio messages from his supposed course. Everyone following the race thought that he was winning, and a hero`s welcome awaited him at home in Britain. But on 10 July 1968, eight months after he set off, his wife was told that his boat had been discovered drifting in mid-Atlantic. Crowhurst was missing, assumed drowned, and there was much speculation that this was one of the great mysteries of the sea. In this masterpiece of investigative journalism, Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall reconstruct one of the greatest hoaxes of our time. From in-depth interviews with Crowhurst`s family and friends and telling... ISBN:9781473635364 Издательство: "Hodder" (2016)
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Nicholas Tomalin
Nicholas Osborne Tomalin (30 October 1931 - 17 October 1973) was an English journalist and writer.
Tomalin was the son of Miles Tomalin, a Communist poet and veteran of the Spanish Civil War. He studied English literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. As a student he was President of the Cambridge Union and editor of the prestigious undergraduate Granta magazine. He graduated in 1954 and began work as a foreign correspondent for various London newspapers. He married fellow Cambridge graduate Claire Tomalin and they remained together until his death, in spite of numerous affairs on his part (and hers).[1]
He later co-wrote a book with Ron Hall about amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst's failed attempt to circumnavigate the world and subsequent suicide. His article The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong was included in Tom Wolfe's collection The New Journalism, which was a collection of non-fiction pieces emblematic of a new movement of reporting aimed at revolutionising the field.
Tomalin's articles often began with bombastic statements on their subject matter. The most famous of these is; "The only qualities essential for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability".[2]
Tomalin was killed in Israel by a Syrian wire missile on 17 October 1973 whilst reporting on the Yom Kippur War.[3]
In November 2005 the journalism trade publication Press Gazette named Tomalin among its top 40 'journalists of the modern era'.[4]
Notes
- ^ Tomalin, Claire "Several Strangers" p.8
- ^ Tomalin, Nicholas "Stop the press I want to get on" Sunday Times Magazine 26 October 1969
- ^ Tomalin info at The Journalist's Memorial
- ^ Press Gazette names top forty journalists of the modern era
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