Summary
AMID the clamour of trash about the break-up of Oasis, Strictly Come Dancing, the end of Big Brother and dear Annie Robinson's alleged facelift -- has she or hasn't she? -- comes a ray of news sunshine.
A boy of 17, Mike Perham, sails around the world solo in 158 days, covering 30,000 miles, some of them through waves 50ft high, with just his iPod and some tinned food. We moan now that children spend too much time fiddling with computers and don't get out enough. Or they're obsessed with becoming famous nonentities on TV when they aren't hanging around in hoodies vandalising cars, assaulting those who remonstrate with them. 'Even the most experienced of sailors would be tested by the mental and physical stamina required to achieve a record of this magnitude,' marvels Craig Glenday of Guinness World Records. When I think how my own youth was wasted, I cringe. At 14, my pals and I took over part of a huge cork raft which had been used to hold RAF bombing targets at sea, or so we were told.See the full content of this document
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Such a Brilliant Boy's Own Adventure [Edition 3]
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