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Summary: A great adventure story
Review: When I was living in California a few years back, I got interested in sailing. I wanted to get all the information I could about traveling the sea. Then I came across "Maiden Voyage". I started reading it and I couldn't put it down.
This is a great story. It made me feel like I was there.
I know I wasn't 'but I really wanted to be.
If you like travel narratives on sailing, this a good place to start.
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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK!!
Review: I am re-ordering this book as I have given away my last two copies to friends who were looking for a good page turner. It's been a few years since I last read the book but I am eager to re-live the adventure. As previous reviewers have commented negatively on the author's style and sailing lingo, I must admit that I had no such problem with either. It was a fascinating read. I HOPE Miss Aebi writes further adventures for us.
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Summary: For the armchair sailor
Review: I was given this book by some world cruisers as a gift. I was drawn into the story. Easy reading, I enjoyed a couple sections at a time imagining that I was taking the trip along with the author in her small boat. The description of some difficulties and hardships are honest and well described. I could almost the feel the frustrations of failed gear and unexpected experiences. In a few instances I was hoping for more details but not often. I'll share the book with my wife and daughter.
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Summary: Good for the soul and for the sailing library
Review: Not only is this a very unique story, it is filled with all the things novice sailors encounter. Tania is a hero.
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Summary: Maiden Voyage
Review: This book was one of the best books I've read lately. I admire Tania and her courage to venture on her own, and I also admire her father for giving her the freedom to "fly from the nest" per say. As a parent, I know that I wouldn't have allowed my child to sail by herself around the world, but with his support and Tania's will and determination....she did it!!! Amazing!
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Summary: Couldnt put it down.
Review: Sometimes we don't know what we are capable of accomplishing. This was the case with Tania Aebi, a eighteen-year-old high school drop-out and all around unproductive and directionless New York City resident. Her father finally puts his foot down one day, and offers her a choice: a college education near home, or a sailboat with a challenge attached to it. Aebi reluctantly chooses the twenty-six foot sailboat, and a solo around-the-world journey. Did she choose adventure to test herself, or distance and isolation to run away from her problems? For the next 27,000 miles the reader gets to ponder this question, watching the scared teenager go from basket case to confident captain. Exotic ports like Sri Lanka, Crete, Tahiti, and Bali serve as the settings for her story. Maiden Voyage is an account of the journey to adulthood just as much as it is about a journey around the world. The youngest female ever to single handedly circumnavigate the globe writes like she is your best friend (except for the occasional rambles of sailing lingo). Page turning and genuinely exciting, this romantic adventure story does nothing short of inspire. The only thing that is missing with Maiden Voyage is a large warning label that says the following: "Warning. Readers of this book may be in danger of selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and buying boats." I bought a copy for my best friend as soon as I finished reading this! I can not stress how cool this book is.
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Summary: 1/2 thumb up
Review: A native New Yorker is offered the chance to circumnavigate the globe, encountering new people and places. The catch? by herself and within a certain amount of time; the time it takes to break the world record for being the youngest girl to ever sail around the world, single-handedly. A chance and experience of a lifetime, one that this brave young girl will never forget.
Meet Tania Aebi. With an eccentric father who wants the best for her, Tania's story is one that tells a tale of courage, love and unforgettable moments that will shape who she is and the life she will lead. Through Tania's accounts, we as the reader get a glimpse of what she goes through emotionally, physically and mentally. Although some of the writing is hard to understand (especially the boat lingo), it is evident that she is an amateur writer who is striving to tell her interesting tale. Although not a first rate novel, the story stays inspirational and interesting enough to keep reading.
At different port stops, Tania introduces the reader to all types of cultures. From the South Pacific to Australia, Sri Lanka and Bermuda, she really gets a glimpse of how different people of our world lead their lives. At the same time, Tania meets sailor friends at different stops, all with exciting stories encounters with different weather and people. A very important personal part of the storyline is the man she meets at a small party, a Switz named Olivier. Although Tania does not go into depth about their love, it is evident at the end that they were meant to be together.
Overall, I thought that the idea of what Tania has been through is a great saga but at the same time, the writing is very choppy and technical at points. It has encouraged me to live life to the fullest and see the world and how different places function, but the book seemed to lack insight and some of it seemed rushed at the end. Yet stories about women and their experiences about adventuring out in the world are always worth reading, even if they are not five star.
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Summary: Maiden Voyage
Review: Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi was difinatly in my opinion a book that I only read because it was mandatory. I found her experiances great and although very adventurous,she never gave me her true feelings about too much of any thing. If she had told her story with a bit more enthusiaum... I might have been able to feel the things she endured. Maybe I would have a different perspective. Overall I think her voyage was a once in a life time kind of journey and she could've elaborated on that a tiny bit more.
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Summary: Maiden Voyage Shipwreck!
Review: Alone, Tanya Aebi started her voyage to circumnavigate the world, with a vauge sense of seamanship. She drifts in and out of topics causing confusion for the reader. Her writting is choppy and unclear and her journey seems more significant than her writting. If your a boater you can relate to her terminology and get more mentally involved in her story, if not she does a poor job of pulling the reader in. But, the book is very inspiring and I admire her courage and skills.
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Summary: Very surprising book
Review: When I first started this book -which I didn't pick to read but was in a book group I belong to- I wasn't too impressed. It seemed to me Tania had no experience about how to write a book... yet, the fact that it is a real life story convinced me to finish it and I am very glad I did. She grows as a woman and a human being during this trip in a way she would have never done it in NY as a bike messenger. It seemed to some readers that her dad was selfish and wanted to live vicariously through her and endanger her life, but if that's the case, I wish I had a selfish dad who will take me out of a "brilliant" high school drop out bike-messenger career and will give me a boat to sail around the world, tied to the beginning of a writing career... Even though at the beginning her writing is less than compelling, as she comes to terms with the trip, her family and herself, she matures as a writer as well as as a woman, and reveals the wonderful person she always was but that I don't think she would have discovered at 21 had she stayed in NY.
The descriptions of the places and the people she saw and met during the 2 years she travelled were amazing and beautiful. I am very happy I read this and I am sure that if I understood more about sailing I would have had that extra enjoyment of an insider's point of view.
Good luck to her, Olivier and Tarzoon, wherever you guys are now!
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