Across the savage sea
Subtitle: the first woman to row across the North Atlantic
By: Maud Fontenoy ; translated from the French by Martin Sokolinsky
Edition: 1st English-language ed.
Publisher: Arcade Pub.; Distributed by Time Warner Book Group
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York; [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781559707626
Subjects: Boats and boating; Rowers; Biography
Work titles: Atlantique face nord
Description: Traces the 2003 journey of the female rower, who crossed the Atlantic in a twenty-four-foot-long boat over the course of one hundred and seventeen days, facing near-freezing water, exhaustion, sharks, dangerous weather, and capsizings.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The white hell of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. First storm - Memories of St. Pierre - First days at sea; title: Sponsors and high heels - The fishermen of St. John's - Live from the Atlantic; title: Fog on the Grand Banks - Childhood memories - Near miss - First bath - Jellyfish for company; title: Part 2. Misleading sun on the gulf stream. Letter from d'Aboville - Life aboard Pilot - A shipyard in a field; title: On the whale highway - Tropical storm Dany - Dolphins; title: Longitude 31 ̊west - A bottle at sea - End of August; title: Part 3. Contrary winds. Thirty-six hours in a gale - Clouds of plankton - Tracy Chapman; title: Desalinator breakdown - Easterly winds - Sill - Sharks and barnacles; title: Storm warning - One sparrow, three butterflies - Heading for Spain - Last night aboard; title: Epilogue : Following your dream.