The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

I have been reading The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall. I had been interested in Crowhurst as a subject mostly because of my interest in Bas Jan Ader, an artist who dissapeared while crossing the Atlantic as part of an art performance titled In Search of the Miraculous (first image below) and Tacita Dean, another artist who made a series of works - called Disappearance at Sea - of which Crowhurst was a subject (see the last image below). I have gotten through about half the book and the subject is still absolutely fascinating - deception and madness and isolation in the middle of the cold, gray seas. I plan on writing a review of sorts when I have finished reading. For now, I leave you with a photo essay to enjoy while I finish the book.

Bas Jan Ader, In Search of the Miraculous.

Donald Crowhurst’s Teignmouth Electron after its discovery, abandoned.

Teignmouth Electron as it exists today.

Donald Crowhurst.

Tacita Dean, The Sea, with a Ship, Afterwards an Island, 1999 (detail).

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