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- Derek Lundy (born December 14, 1946) is a Canadian author.His first published book was Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy. He achieved bestseller status with his second work, Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters, an account of the harrowing 1996 Vendée Globe round the world single-handed sailing race. It has been called "the best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing" and Time magazine called it "one of the best books ever written about sailing." The book was a national bestseller in Canada and has been published around the world in translation. He subsequently published The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail, a semi-fictionalized account of the voyage of Benjamin Lundy around Cape Horn on a square rigged sailing vessel in the late 19th century. His next work was published in 2006 and was called The Bloody Red Hand: A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland. It is an account of the Northern Irish Troubles and their historical roots, told through three of Lundy's ancestors, each of whom played an important role in Irish history. Although Lundy is an (Irish-born) Canadian author, the book received high praise in the United Kingdom. For example, Roy Foster (the Irish historian) stated in The Guardian that the book was "terse, idiomatic and arresting" and spoke of the "impressively assured" control of the material. The Independent said that it was a "distinguished work: erudite, earnest, elucidative, even-handed in its attempt to probe the Northern Ireland Protestant mind and memory-box". Lundy's most recent published work is Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America, recounting his experiences riding a motorcycle along the U.S.'s northern and southern borders. It was published in Canada in May 2010. Borderlands was shortlisted for a British Columbia Book prize (the Hubert Evans non fiction prize) in 2011. (en)
- Derek Lundy, né le 14 décembre 1946 à Belfast, Irlande du Nord, est un écrivain canadien de la Colombie-Britannique. Son premier livre, publié en juillet 1995 aux éditions (en) (Toronto), est une biographie de l’avocat et auteur américain Scott Turow, Scott Turow: Meeting the Ennemy. Son best-seller est Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters, publié par Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill en 1999, qui raconte la déchirante course à voile en solo Vendée Globe de 1996. Selon le Time, c’est un des meilleurs livres jamais écrits sur la voile en solo. Ce livre a été un best-seller au Canada et publié à travers le monde en traduction. Lundy a par la suite publié The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail, le récit partiellememt fictif du voyage de Benjamin Lundy, qui aurait franchi le cap Horn à bord d’un voilier clipper à la fin du XIXe siècle. En 2006, il publie The Bloody Red Hand: A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland, le compte rendu du conflit nord-irlandais et de ses sources historiques par trois ancêtres de Derek Lundy qui, chacun, ont joué un rôle important dans l’histoire irlandaise. Bien que Lundy soit un auteur canadien né en Irlande du Nord, le livre a été très bien accueilli au Royaume-Uni. Ainsi, l’historien Roy Foster écrit dans The Guardian que l’ouvrage était concis, bien écrit et saisissant. Le plus récent livre de Lundy, Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America, publié au Canada en mai 2010, a été retenu comme candidat finaliste en 2011 au (en) de la Colombie-Britannique. (fr)
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- Derek Lundy (born December 14, 1946) is a Canadian author.His first published book was Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy. He achieved bestseller status with his second work, Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters, an account of the harrowing 1996 Vendée Globe round the world single-handed sailing race. It has been called "the best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing" and Time magazine called it "one of the best books ever written about sailing." The book was a national bestseller in Canada and has been published around the world in translation. (en)
- Derek Lundy, né le 14 décembre 1946 à Belfast, Irlande du Nord, est un écrivain canadien de la Colombie-Britannique. Son premier livre, publié en juillet 1995 aux éditions (en) (Toronto), est une biographie de l’avocat et auteur américain Scott Turow, Scott Turow: Meeting the Ennemy. Lundy a par la suite publié The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail, le récit partiellememt fictif du voyage de Benjamin Lundy, qui aurait franchi le cap Horn à bord d’un voilier clipper à la fin du XIXe siècle. (fr)
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