By the Grace of the Sea 
Subtitle: A Woman's Solo Odyssey Around the World
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
Published: August 9, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780071355278
First sentence: OF THE MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED CRUISING SAILBOATS arriving in Mexico in 1989, only a handful were turning southwest into the Pacific, sandwiching their departures between the South Pacific hurricane season ending in April and the one that had officially begun on May 1 in the North Pacific.