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Rowing the Atlantic

English · Paperback / Softback

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Zusatztext “A great armchair adventure.” –Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor A latecomer to the life of adventure, Roz Savage was previously a management consultant and investment banker, before realizing at the age of thirty-four that there might be more to life than a steady income and a house in the suburbs. In 2005, she was the only solo female competitor in the Atlantic Rowing Race, the first solo woman ever to compete in that race and the sixth woman to row an ocean solo. In 2010, Roz was selected as an "Adventurer of the Year" by National Geographic. Klappentext Stuck in a corporate job rut and an unraveling marriage, Roz Savage realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life's savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race. Flashing back to key moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans, and how this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendonitis-inducing reality. Savage discovers in the rough waters of the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find. Zusammenfassung Stuck in a corporate job rut and an unraveling marriage, Roz Savage realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn’t going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life’s savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race. Flashing back to key moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans, and how this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendonitis-inducing reality. Savage discovers in the rough waters of the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find....

Product details

Authors Roz Savage
Publisher Simon & Schuster USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.10.2010
 
EAN 9781439153727
ISBN 978-1-4391-5372-7
Dimensions 140 mm x 214 mm x 15 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Boating, Biography: adventurers and explorers

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