The book is the result of a long process of interviews conducted with
author and screenwriter Alexia Belleville
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In this book that reads like a novel, Marc Thiercelin tells us about his life on the world's oceans, in storms and solitude. The sea reveals people. This space of freedom and beauty helped him understand the world.
A rare testimony, he describes his experiences in extreme situations, the exploration of blue horizons, the immensity of storms, the significant encounters with people who make a destiny bounce back. Nothing is written in advance.
Marc Thiercelin explains how this desire for the sea, then this desire for offshore racing, germinated in him. The sea reveals beings. This space of freedom and beauty helped him understand the world.
From the first tacks to the start of the first Vendée Globe, he describes how he was able, from his dreams, to make his round the world trips come true. Well beyond the race and the competition alone, he teaches us how to apply the essential values of the sailor courage and will to our own existences. Marc Thiercelin takes the reader by the hand and invites him to walk alongside him, at the height of Man.
The Philosopher Navigator is an odyssey, a beacon to navigate the vast seas of existence
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About ecology
It is our responsibility to imagine an ecology that brings hope, to support young people in developing a new relationship with nature.
From the sailor
I am a man of the sea. I cannot imagine my life without the sea, and then without the ocean, seeing it and even better riding it. It makes me alive.
Jobs
Sailing has evolved in record time. All the jobs related to the boat are important. As proof, Tabarly used to say that he never made others do what he had not done himself. He knew all the jobs. I applied this principle to myself.
From the Vendée Globe
The Vendée Globe embodies the great epic of the open sea. This race is the Pantheon of my dreams.
Of the sea
The sea is one of the last spaces of freedom. It is important that this principle be preserved. Sailing embodies this freedom.
Summits to climb
The first victory is already to be on the starting line. Being on the line is one of the peaks to climb.