James Hansen joins us on Thursday, July 20 at 5:30pm for the perfect summer book program connected with his new release, Completely Mad. From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone. In this bracing adventure tale, the story of John Fairfax and Tom McClean are woven together for the first time. Fairfax would set off from the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa with his sights on Florida. McClean charted a course from Newfoundland to Ireland. Though the two men’s remarkable transoceanic journeys seem pulled from a different era, both finished within days of the first landing on the moon in July 1969. With gripping and insightful prose, James R. Hansen brings to life their nail-biting expeditions.
