The Friends of the Jamestown Library welcomes renowned author and Wickford resident, Edward Renehan, on Wednesday, June 7 at 7pm.
He will speak about and sign copies of his new book, "Desperate Voyage," which tells the story of Donald Crowhurst and the London Sunday Times Golden Globe Race of 1968-69.
Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst (1932-1969) was a British businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the- world yacht race. Crowhurst had entered the race in hopes of winning a cash prize from The Sunday Times to aid his failing business. Instead, he encountered difficulty early in the voyage, and secretly abandoned the race while continuing to report false positions, in an attempt to appear to complete a circumnavigation without actually circling the world.
Edward Renehan is the author of 20 books published by imprints which include Doubleday, Crown, Oxford University Press, and Simon & Schuster. He has as well written for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Hearst's Veranda, and lectured at NYU and other universities. Since 2010, Renehan has also been the proprietor of a small press, New Street Communications, based in Wickford.