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Summary: An excellent story of a romantic adventure
Review: I want to meet the author of this book. I felt like I was on the sail boat with her on all of her adventures. The story is one of adventure, risks, love, and self-awareness. An excellent story and very inspirational. A must have.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I loved this book! Tania did an excellent job relating her travels and adventures to the reader. Her successful circumnavigation (at such a young age) is an inspiration to follow your dreams. This book was a perfect blend of travel and adventure anecdotes mixed in with sailing problems and learning experiences. As someone landlocked during the winter I'm certain I will be rereading this book several times this winter.
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Summary: Amazing book, incredible human being
Review: As someone who has recently had the pleasure of spending time sailing with Tania in the Society Islands in French Poly, I can tell you that this book is the real thing, as is she.The book is an account of Tania's voyage as a nineteen-year-old street wise girl from Brooklyn and her metamorphis into the omnipotent sailor explorer she is today. The book's most redeeming quality for me was really the writing itself. Tania doesn't see herself as a 'writer' per-se but the story telling itself is tremendous. The intimacy of the book is really rare and wonderful too. Tania risked a lot personnally, emotionally, spirititualy and intellectually in writing this book. The book was so very intimate that upon meeting her in the flesh I had the distinct feeling that I'd known her in the past already, that we'd journeyed together.
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Summary: An excellent adventure
Review: It all starts with Tania; an 18 year old girl who embarks on an incredible quest. The mission, circumnatavigate the world in two and half years. From the very start this wonderful story gives you the picture and feelings of what it's like out in the blue yonder. You will travel around the globe with Tania as she explores the ancient islands of the Galapagos or the beauty of Sri Lanka. You will get to know two extrodinary people who help this brave girl along the tough trails of the perilous seas. It's an extrodinary quest that will keep in your seat coming for more.
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Summary: Coming of Age
Review: There are thousands of us who sail and many more of us who write, rarely are the two talents combined as well as they are here. You do not simply read Maiden Voyage, you take the single handed journey around the world along with Tania, and at the end, your life too will be changed. Do not hesitate, if you have not already read this book click "add to cart" now, you will not be dissapointed. The fragile beauty of this story of a young woman's rite of passage is waiting to tug at your emotions and haunt your memory. After reading it, you'll be back to buy a copy for a friend.
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Summary: great adventure
Review: this book is a great adventure for any age and all sexes.
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Summary: The Adventure Was Contrived
Review: Ms. Aebi has had a very difficult time both sailing and writing. To circumnavigate the world as the youngest woman ever wasn't her idea. It was pushed upon her by an egoistic father who in doing so threatened her life. Being a good girl and trying to win her father's love she helped him to abuse her. She reveals that her sailing knowlege was completely absent. She had little self discipline. She never writes about loving to sail. She writes about affairs and friendships with men whom she ends up depending on to get her from one port to the next. .... It was a ... way to come of age, and I'm sure she grew as a person. Her itinery was interesting and images of the south sea islands and the red sea remain. The trip was a fantastic adventure, but perhaps one day she can learn to sail.
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Summary: I really really liked it, excellant writing style.
Review: This was a great book. I sail, and I could relate to a lot of the prblems she had. My uncle sails all around the world, and he had been to and told me stories about all the places she went, so I could really relate to that too. If you don't know much about sailing, it's not that big pf a deal, you'll pick it up pretty quickly (terms, courses, etc...) It was an excellant book, and you should read it.
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Summary: Inspiring
Review: This book makes you realize that anything you want to do is possible. If an 18 year old girl can sail around the world alone then people don't have any excuse not to follow there dreams to. I hope one day to it as well.
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Summary: Wanderlust
Review: After finishing only the first 30 or so pages of this incredible account, I began recommending it to friends. This is a book which will be read again and again. It sparks the imagination and gives birth to an incredible feeling of wanderlust and adventure.
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