Challenging the Pacific (eBook)

The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route

Maud Fontenoy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
176 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-228-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Just two years after rowing solo across the North Atlantic at the age of twenty-five, Maud Fontenoy was ready for a new challengecrossing the Pacific Ocean. Leaving from Lima, Peru, and traveling 4,400 miles in seventy-three days, Fontenoy landed in Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, becoming the first woman to complete what is known as the Kon-Tiki route. Alone at sea for days and nights on end, Fontenoys story relates the ups and downs of her time at sea, from circling sharks to the celebrity welcome upon her journeys end.Named one of Time Magazine Internationals thirty most important people of 2005, Fontenoy presents the reader with a terrific, entertaining adventure story on the high seas as she faces the Pacific Ocean. Fontenoy overcame the odds as well as her personal doubts and fears, demonstrating not only her indomitable courage and strength, but proving once again that women can conquer the most difficult and treacherous obstacles.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Sport- / Aktivreisen
• Schlagworte: 2003 • 2005 • 25-year-old • 36th • Arcade • Atlantic • banged • barnacles • books on atlantic • books on barnacles • books on cockpits • books on container ships books on shellfishes • books on crustaceans • books on flying fish • books on french polynesias • books on heyerdahl • books on hull • books on lanes • books on legs • books on lima • books on oars • books on peru • books on routes • books on rowers • books on rowings • books on royal women • books on rudders • books on satellites • books on savage seas • books on sea lives • books on sharks • books on shoal • books on staminas • books on voyages • books on water situations • clamped • Cockpit • Container Ships • Crustaceans • fly fish • Flying Fish • French Polynesia • Fretting • Heyerdahl • Hiva • Hull • impaled • kon-tiki expedition • lanes • legs • Lima • navigated • North Atlantic • oars • ocean crossing • Pacific • Peru • Route • rowboat • rowed • rowers • rowing • row solo • Royal women • rudder • Satellite • savage sea • Sea Life • Sharks • shellfish • Shoal • Stamina • swim • swimming • Voyage • water situation
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-228-2 / 1628722282
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-228-4 / 9781628722284