Rowing the Atlantic Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

by Savage, Roz

• ISBN13: 9781439153727
• ISBN10: 1439153728
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-26
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Roz Savage, a latecomer to the life of adventure, was previously a management consultant in a London office. In 2005, she competed in the 3,000-mile Atlantic Rowing Race, becoming the sixth woman to row solo across an ocean. In 2010, she became the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean, a distance of 8,000 miles.

Table of Contents

The Unlikely Adventurer	p. 1
Passing the Point of No Return	p. 9
Beginnings	p. 23
What Was I Thinking?	p. 33
Baring My Soul-and More	p. 43
One Stroke at a Time	p. 59
One Oar Down	p. 79
Clouds of Anxiety	p. 97
Life Is Easier in the Storms	p. 109
Happy Birthday to Me	p. 127
All I Want for Christmas	p. 133
Rogue Wave Rumble	p. 141
Going Garbo	p. 155
Atlantic Hardcore	p. 161
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	p. 169
Two Hundred Valentines	p. 173
Incommunicado	p. 181
Ships Passing in the Night	p. 195
One Hundred Days of Solitude	p. 199
So Near and Yet So Far	p. 207
The Home Strait	p. 217
An Altered Reality	p. 225
Epilogue	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 241
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