This book, Published by Editions La Découvrance in August, takes on its full meaning as the Vendée Globe occupies the sporting news. Whether you are a fan of ocean racing, Family ocean boater, Grandpa yachtman or single coastal boater, You must read this novel.
Through the initiatory journey of a young Vendée Globe rookie, the story takes us to the other side of the media mirror of this legendary race. It leads us over the miles traveled towards a much less exciting reality, much less poetic, but which concerns us all.
After inspiring documentaries by Yann Arthus Bertrand, by Jacques Perrin and others, Pierre-Yves Touzot preferred to release his camera for this simple novel that speaks directly, for we boaters. I was all the more touched by the character's journey as I recognized my own concerns in him., from decades, by observing during my navigations the increasing degradation of our maritime environment. If ocean adventure still exists, very fortunately, boating takes on an increasingly bitter taste and it is good that a writer, a filmmaker, an enthusiast, come and give us a little electric shock that brings us back to reality, back 'les pieds sur mer'.
The author
Pierre-Yves Touzot, director, screenwriter and novelist most recently, has made more than a hundred films, medium and short films, documentaries and commissioned films. Like an Albatross is his second novel.
[Update 2024] Unfortunately the book is out of stock at many distributors.;