Sailing to the Far Horizon : The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0299201945
ISBN-13
9780299201944
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint
University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2012
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
552 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Travel writing
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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. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos''un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.
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