Across the Savage Sea: The First Woman to Row Across the North Atlantic

Fontenoy, Maud

ISBN 10: 1559707623 / ISBN 13: 9781559707626

Published by Arcade Publishing, New York, New York, 2005

About this Item

This is the first English language edition and the first printing of that edition. Book itself has blue cloth covers with red lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. 149 pages. Clean, fresh, tight and bright. No underlining, no highlighting, no bookplates, no owner names, not ex-libras, not a remainder. A very nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Across the Savage Sea: The First Woman to Row Across the North Atlantic
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559707623
• ISBN 13: 9781559707626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st English Language Edition,
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Traces the 2003 journey of Maud Fontenoy, who crossed the Atlantic in a twenty-four-foot-long boat over the course of 117 days, an accomplishment that was challenged by such difficulties as near-freezing water, exhaustion from long hours of rowing, circling sharks, dangerous weather conditions, and dozens of capsizings.

Reviews

What does a young woman who spent her first 15 years on a sailboat in the West Indies do for adventure? If you're Fontenoy, you attempt the first west-to-east crossing of the North Atlantic by a woman in a rowboat--not a dinghy, mind you, but a well-designed vessel, 24 feet long and 5 feet wide. Her living compartment is a 3-foot cube, her food is freeze-dried, her water comes from a desalinator, and she powers her vessel herself with a pair of oars. The west-to-east crossing offered more difficult currents and weather than the other direction, and besides, the other had already been done. She wanted adventure, and got it during 117 days of brutal conditions, danger, fear, pain, and grinding loneliness combined with joy and a grand sense of accomplishment. Fontenoy writes with a vividness and immediacy that truly brings the reader into the boat with her. And we can expect an encore: she just finished rowing across the Pacific. Danise Hoover
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