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Maiden Voyage
Full title: | Maiden Voyage |
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ISBN: | 9781476747729 |
ISBN 10: | 1476747725 |
Authors: | Aebi, Tania |
Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
Edition: | Reprint |
Num. pages: | 320 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2013 |
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Synopsis
Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere-until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat, sheâd have to sail around the world-alone. She chose the boat, and for the next two and a half years and 27,000 miles, it was her home. With only her cat as companion, she discovered the wondrous beauties of the Great Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the Red Sea. She suffered through a terrifying collision with a tanker in the Mediterranean and a lightning storm off the coast of Gibraltar. And, ultimately, what began with the sheer desire for adventure turned into a spiritual quest as Tania came to terms with her troubled family life, fell in love for the first time, and-most of all-confronted her own needs, desires, dreams, and goals. . . .
In 1987, Tania Aebi became the first American woman and the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. Maiden Voyage tells the adventure of a troubled 18-year-old who braved typhoons, pirates and starvation to return home a hero.