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Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
About Derek Lundy
- 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 sophomore 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.
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