Shipwrecked in paradise
By: Julie Waterman
Publisher: Mereo
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Gloucestershire, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781909544710
Subjects: Women travelers; Biography; Women adventurers; Travelers' writings, British; Voyageuses; Biographies; Aventurières; Adventurers
Description: Raised to a life of relentless hard work as one of seven children of a single mother, Julie Waterman was married and having her own first child by the time she was 17. At 23 she was running her own cleaning company, making such a success of it that she was soon employing 400 people. But at 35 she gave it all up to buy a second-hand yacht and embarked on the biggest adventure of them all -- an attempt to sail single-handed round the world. -- Back cover.