{"product_id":"9780924486777","title":"Tamata and the Alliance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating memoir spans the time from Moitessier's magical childhood in Vietnam to months before his death, is a beautifully written saga of physical adventure and spiritual growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the French Indochina in 1925, Bernard Moitessier grew up astride two cultures—French and Vietnamese—in a turbulent era that moved dramatically from peace to war. Imprisoned during the Japanese occupation, he was later drafted to fight the Viet Minh in a French war that foreshadowed America's own Vietnam involvement two decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamata tells how the 25-year-old Moitessier left Vietnam to answer the call of the sea. He led the life of a sea-gypsy, wandering the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic, and the Caribbean, learning the ways of boats and the sea and surviving two catastrophic shipwrecks. His greatest sailing adventures followed, the Tahiti-Alicante passage and his ten month round-the-world solo voyage in 1969 when he withdrew from the Golden Globe Race and sailed on to Tahiti.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoitessier then spent three years on a remote atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago. Called \"Tamata\" (\"try it!\") by his Tuamotu friends, he built a Polynesian-style house, planted coconut trees, and gradually transformed the sun-blasted coral into a speck of green in the middle of the South Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter living in the United States, he spent the last years of his life in France. He is buried in a small fishing village in Brittany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sheridan House, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033616630000,"sku":"9780924486777","price":24.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780924486777_p0.jpg?v=1763869069","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780924486777","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}