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"Banshee" is a true story of an incredible adventure. It was written to help inspire people, young and old, to follow their dreams and never give up. In 1962, two young men with a big dream to sail around the world left Durban, South Africa in their 25-foot sailboat called Banshee, the smallest boat to have attempted this journey at the time. This story charts the adventures of Frank Thomas and Malcolm Maidwell as they attempt to navigate - without assistance from today's modern technology - the treacherous waters around the tip of Africa (aptly named, as they would find out, "The Cape of Storms") and make their way across the Atlantic Ocean. This was an ambitious plan, bearing in mind their only previous sailing experience was on the small, landlocked Cinderella Dam near Johannesburg.