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Informationen zum Autor Hester Rumberg Klappentext An international bestseller. A remarkable true story of one woman's courage. In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. Three years into their incredible journey, a nearby freighter altered its course by a mere ten degrees-and everything changed... After forty-four hours in the icy water clinging to an overturned dinghy, her back broken and paralyzed below the waist, Judith miraculously survived, winding up in a small community on the New Zealand coast. Gripping, unbelievable yet true, Judith's story of courage, survival, and retribution is alternately heartrending and uplifting. It's also a story of unbreakable bonds, of shattering loss, and of one woman reborn through the strength of friendship and the profound love of strangers who became family. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph Foreword One - November 24, 1995 Two - Ten-Year Plan Three - Beyond Armchair Cruising Four - Bonjour de Guadeloupe Five - The Littlest Captain Six - Abandoned by Grace Seven - Rules of the Road Eight - Grave Impact Nine - Obligations and Procedures Ten - Oceans of Sorrow Eleven - Searching for Melinda Lee Twelve - The Moan of Condolences Thirteen - The Sailboat Fourteen - Willing to Live Fifteen - Realities Sixteen - The Burden of Memory Seventeen - Gathering the Evidence Eighteen - The Investigation Nineteen - Aotearoa Twenty - Trials and Mediations Twenty-one - Reflections Twenty-Two - Ten Degrees of Reckoning Epilogue Acknowledgements ABOUT THE AUTHOR AMY EINHORN BOOKS Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons Publishers Since 1838 a member of the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright © 2007 by Hester Rumberg Maps by Margaret Davidson, courtesy Hester Rumberg Letter pages 125-127 © the Polley Family Photograph page 247 © Judith Sleavin Photograph page 249 © Hester Rumberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rumberg, Hester. Ten degrees of reckoning : the true story of a family’s love and the will to survive / Hester Rumberg.—1st American ed. p. cm. eISBN : 978-1-101-01617-6 1. Sleavin, Judith. 2. Sleavin, Judith—Family. 3. Melinda Lee (Sailboat). 4. Shipwreck victims—United States—Biography. 5. Shipwreck victims—New Zealand— Biography. 6. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.—New Zealand. 7. Shipwrecks—New Zealand. 8. Boating accidents—New Zealand. 9. Pan Grace (Cargo ship). 10. Cargo ships—Korea (South). I. Sleavin, Judith. II. Title. G530.S59R 910.9164’79—dc22 While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telep...
