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Summary: Simply amazing diary!
Review: Tania Aebi's "Maiden Voyage" depicts a troubled teen's real life circumnavigation of the Earth on a small sailboat. She knows little of sailing but quickly masters her boat and the wind that takes her around the world. She meets plenty of friends throughout her real life journey that took place in in the late '80's. Several close calls make sure the journey never goes quite as planned.Good book for those who are interested in sailing or dream of adventure abroad. Ms. Aebi's circumnavigation is a learning experience not only for her, but for all of those who read her book. "Maiden Voyage" is one of Amazon's best kept secrets! A great book!
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Summary: Loved this book -- a must-read for free spirits of all ages
Review: I picked up this book on the recommendation of a speaker at one of my grad school classes. The speaker, Roland Legiardi-Laura, is making a film with John Taylor Gatto that examines the problems with schooling and alternatives to it. He recommended Maiden Voyage as a glimpse at one young woman's real education. By choosing sailing the world over a college education, Tania changed the course of her life. I was thrilled to take the voyage with her through her book. I'm not into sailing and will probably never set sail any farther than a day trip on the Chesapeake Bay, but I loved this book. The beauty of it is seeing a young woman experience the world through fresh eyes. The reader watches as Tania comes into her own and experiences the 'real' world outside of the traditional path from high school to college to the working world of materialism. It inspired me to re-examine everything I take for granted in my life and think about all the things I might be missing in life. Everyone should read this book. My cousin graduates high school in May and I'm going to give her a copy of this book. Not to encourage her to sail around the world, but to find her own passion and chart her own course in life.
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Summary: not that great
Review: Could have been written better I think. I had to re-read some sentances a few times to understand them. Sometimes I had to back read just to figure out what she was talking about. Maybe I'm just stupid. The places she visits are interesting. Sometimes while reading the book I got in a fetal position and quivered while thinking about how little she knew about sailing before taking off into the ocean. I imagin by the time she got home from her circumnavigation she had learned enough, and gained enough sailing experience to start her circumnavigation. all in all it was worth the read and entertaining. But I would reccomend "Confessions of a Long Distance Sailor" by Paul lutus instead of this book. its written far better, has just as many aventures, is far more education in a worldly and sailing sense, and best of all, its free. just search for it on the web, then you can download it.
Cheers
Chad
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Summary: A True Romantic Adventure
Review: This book was one of the first that I read in the True Adventure genre and while I have read many since and some that are certainly more sound from a writing perspective, few have come close to the honesty and beauty of the journey that Tania Aebi shares with us in this story. This book does go in to a great amount of detail about sailing, but I think this is superbly important. It gives us insight into what it takes in order to make a journey like this one and we get to see and experience with her the huge learning curve of sailing and all the intricacies of doing it well. I, in fact, appreciated all the detail because I learned from it and am a better reader of sailing stories as a result. Tania shares so much of herself and the challenges she overcame and the personal growth she experiences. I had a hard time putting the book down as so much happens and you want to know how this young inexperienced woman would handle it. It's always great to find a good adventure story, even more so when it is about a young woman, this book will certainly not disappoint anyone who wants to see life experienced on this incredible journey.
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Summary: My favorite book
Review: Was her journey too dangerous for someone so inexperienced and so young? Yes, but perhaps those very same factors made Tania's voyage such an adventure. I have read the book in it's entirety twice, and selected parts more often than I can count. She did what any good writer should do, in that she "showed" her readers rather than "told" her readers. She painted beautiful images of her suroundings whether on the boat, in the South Pacific, or when she dealt with her late mother. A wonderful book for the lovers of travel and adventure.
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Summary: Simply amazing diary!
Review: Tania Aebi's "Maiden Voyage" depicts a troubled teen's real life circumnavigation of the Earth on a small sailboat. She knows little of sailing but quickly masters her boat and the wind that takes her around the world. She meets plenty of friends throughout her real life journey that took place in in the late '80's. Several close calls make sure the journey never goes quite as planned. Good book for those who are interested in sailing or dream of adventure abroad. Ms. Aebi's circumnavigation is a learning experience not only for her, but for all of those who read her book. "Maiden Voyage" is one of Amazon's best kept secrets! A great book!
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Summary: Read it again and again... Aebi's adventures never get old!
Review: The amazing story of an 18 year old who sets out to see the world. However, unlike the majority of us who board a 747 and are at our destination a few hours later, Aebi travels around the world alone on a sailboat. Her adventures are really interesting and her story is inspiring. At times, the book is a bit technical (it *is* a sailing book), but even for those of us who have never sailed before in our lives, her accounts of her past and her travels really make the book enjoyable and understandable. I've read it several times and it has always managed to inspire me. Never a boring read.
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Summary: A hobbit goes sailing
Review: Well, not exactly, but there are plenty of parallels.
More or less thrown into this journey by a zany, wizard-like father, Tania begins her Tolkienesque voyage with no real understanding of the difficulties involved. After experiencing many adventures, some real dangers, and even a bit of romance, she returns home a wiser, stronger, and altogether more mature woman. Heartwarming, authentic, and honest, Tania proves herself to be a sailor and author in the tradition of the grandfather of single-handed circumnavigators, old Slocum himself.
A page-turner.
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Summary: Solo circumnavigation, plastic sextant, and a novice sailor
Review: The space between Miss Aebi's account of sailing away from her life in New York to her return to America is filled with the most incredible adventure. Her gaining of experience on the sea parallels her maturing from a "lost soul" teenager to confident adult in a page-turning sort of way. I loved this book!
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Summary: Review of Maiden Voyage
Review: Review of Maiden Voyage After reading the book Maiden Voyage for my literature class at my high school, I had had only one thought about the book. What in the world was Tania thinking? She was young, unprepared, and inexperienced in the world of boating.
This book is directed at a slim group of people, not including myself. And living here in Iowa, I find it very hard to connect with Tania and her boating experiences because not very many people sail boats here. I am sure that the topic could be more interesting to many other people, but for many others and myself too I know it would not be. Another thing that made the book even less appealing outside the fact of not being able to connect with it, was how it was set up. The book was an entire flashback except for chapter one, and this made it very confusing towards the middle of the book when she was talking about what she was doing now and you didn't know if she meant then while sailing or now while writing. Also there wasn't very much history about her and her family. All you knew was that she was a troubled teenager, whose parents were divorced and that she wanted to sail around the world to prove to her dad that she could do it. That's it. I was really upset by this I think that I would have liked it more but I had no way to connect to the book while she was sailing or before when she wasn't. And if I could have made the connection before she left to sail I know that I would have enjoyed the book more. In the end I think that Tania had a poor cause to start off with when wanting to sail around the world. She was doing it for her father and not for herself which made the book have not as strong of an appeal as it would of if she wanted to do it for herself. I think that this book could be very good but it was set up was confusing, the connections are to hard to make, and the sheer fact that she is doing it for someone else makes you not be able to see how she is truly feeling as well.
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