Download or read book A World of My Own written by Robin Knox-Johnston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Knox-Johnston's A World of My Own has become a classic account of the first non-stop, single-handed voyage around the world. In June, 1968, the twenty-nine-year-old Knox-Johnston sailed his ketch, the Suhaili virtually unnoticed out of Falmouth harbor. Sheer determination helped him to survive, among other things, the disintegration of the self-steering system, polluted water tanks and acid burns.