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Rowing for My Life : Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey by Saville, Kathleen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rowing for My Life : Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey about?

"A thoughtful memoir . . . Experienced sailors and thrill seekers will especially enjoy the details of the ocean adventures" ( Booklist ). Kathleen Saville and her husband, Curt, had recently gotten married and were settling down in a small town in New York—when Kathleen started to realize that maybe they weren't quite ready to settle down. The year before, she and Curt had retraced Henry David Thoreau's canoe journey through the Maine Woods, and both were veteran rowers. Inspired, she suggested that they row across the Atlantic Ocean. Returning to her hometown, living on a shoestring, they built their own twenty-five-foot ocean rowboat. They set out from Morocco and, tested by adverse currents, gales, and their own inexperience, accomplished the near impossible. Three years later, while they attempted to row across the Pacific, Curt was washed overboard and lost their sextant—their only means of navigation....

Who reads Rowing for My Life : Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey?

Author

Saville, Kathleen

Publisher

Arcade Publishing / Skyhorse Publishing, Inc

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781628726886

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, Biography, Anthropology

Rating

4.2 / 5 (85 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14