Publisher's Synopsis
OiBrien made history in 1925 having sailed around the world in his small yacht, Saoirse. Others had circumnavigated the world in small boats, but Conor was first to sail the clipper route and brave the screaming fifties despite difficulties with crew, desertion, robbery and hardship, no radio or electronic devices. After Joshua Slocumis epic voyage of the 1880s, it was the most noted sea journey of the time, not repeated until 1969. His book about the voyage, Across Three Oceans, was a bestseller. First full biography of this remarkable and almost forgotten figure in Irish history.
