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The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand's North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking a sixty-year-old, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Chapter 1 Joining the Sofia for Her Second Circumnavigation: Floating in Boston Chapter 2 Into the Teeth of Hurricane Kendra: My Maiden Voyage Chapter 3 Too Much Rum, Too Many Steel Drums: Too Long a Stay in the Windward Islands Chapter 4 Old World, Third World, Unspoiled World: The Dutch Antilles, Venezuela, the San Blas Archipelago Chapter 5 Great Escapes: The Trip Overland through Mexico and Central America Chapter 6 \u201c\u00bfD\u00f3nde Est\u00e1 American Embassy?\u201d: What the Travel Brochures Don't Tell You: Costa Rica, Panama, and the Galapagos Chapter 7 The World\u2019s Largest Espanse of Uninterrupted Ocean: Crossing the South Pacific to the Marquesas Chapter 8 The Most Beautiful Islands in the World: The Societies Chapter 9 Too Many Have Come before Us: The Cook Islands, the Samoas, and the Kingdom of Tonga Chapter 10 Deep in the Doldrums: Crossing the Horse Latitudes to New Zeland Chapter 11 Roll On, Deep and Dark Blue Ocean: The Mutiny and the Sofia's Final Passage Chapter 12 Off the North Cape: The Storm Chapter 13 Sinking: The Life Rafts Chapter 14 Coming Home Epilogue
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Pamela Sisman Bitterman is author of
Muzungu, a travel memoir of her experience in Kenya, and the children's book
When This Is Over,
I Will Go to School, and I Will Learn to Read, which won a CBC Gold Medal and a Sharp Writ book award. She lives in San Diego, California.
