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Rowing the Atlantic : lessons learned on the open ocean / Roz Savage.

Savage, Roz, 1967- (Author).

Summary:

Offers an inspirational story of how one woman traded an unhappy job and marriage for a 103-day solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, powered only by muscle, grit, and determination, in an account by the first woman to ever row from California to Hawaii.

Record details

ISBN: 9781416583288
ISBN: 1416583289
Physical Description: 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Map on lining papers.

Formatted Contents Note:

One Unlikely Adventurer 1 -- Two Passing the Point of No Return 9 -- Three Beginnings 23 -- Four What Was I Thinking? 33 -- Five Baring My Soul-and More 43 -- Six One Stroke at a Time 59 -- Seven One Oar Down 79 -- Eight Clouds of Anxiety 97 -- Nine Life Is Easier in the Storms 109 -- Ten Happy Birthday to Me 127 -- Eleven All I Want for Christmas 133 -- Twelve Rogue Wave Rumble 141 -- Thirteen Going Garbo 155 -- Fourteen Atlantic Hardcore 161 -- Fifteen Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 169 -- Sixteen Two Hundred Valentines 173 -- Seventeen Incommunicado 181 -- Eighteen Ships Passing in the Night 195 -- Nineteen One Hundred Days of Solitude 199 -- Twenty So Near and Yet So Far 207 -- Twenty-One Home Strait 217 -- Twenty-Two An Altered Reality 225.