[Mobile ebook] Taking on the World : A Sailor's Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe
♛ Ellen MacArthur ♛
| #1722860 in Books | 2004-04-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.12 x5.90l,1.25 | File Name: 0071435441 | 368 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| First Rate Book about Ellen MacArthur!|By Sylviastel|Ellen MacArthur was still an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) before being awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a very high honor indeed for somebody only in her thirties. She breathes and lives sailing. This book is a first rate publication with colored photographs and a tale of a girl w|From Publishers Weekly|No one can argue with MacArthur's prowess on the high seas. The 24-year-old made international headlines in 2001 for placing second in the Vendee-Globe, a nonstop, 26,000-mile race that she completed alone in 94 days. Unfortunately, this
"An exuberant, headlong, exhausting ride . . . more than a book about sailboat racing; it's also about a dream ferociously pursued and the price paid for realizing it . . . impossible to put down."
--Derek Lundy, author, Godforsaken Sea
"A story of mythic shape--of a young girl who receives a call to adventure and sets out on a compulsive journey, and finds mentors, tests, dark caves, despair, a supreme ordeal, and triumph."
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Taking on the World : A Sailor's Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe | Ellen MacArthur.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
