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Summary: Great adventure by a courageous woman.
Review: This is a marvelous book, very well written, about an amazing adventure. Her story of sailing around the world in a 31-foot boat is interesting enough. To do it all alone, without enough money to start with, having to figure out ways of making money in strange ports as she went - that is amazing. I sailed around the world in a 42 foot boat with my wife to share the duties and with enough money. I thought I had an adventure. To do it the way Pat did is truly remarkable. Her writing accurately reflects the joys and challenges of world cruising. Seen from a woman's eyes, she saw things I never saw (I'm male) She was exposed to dangers I never was, and she reacted to situations in ways that help me understand women a little better. On top of all this, she deals intimately with the healing of troubled relationships she left at home, and the rethinking of what she wants her life to be. I enjoyed every page of this book.
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Summary: Personal as well as Global Exploration
Review: Those who wrote reviews saying Henry was a "whiner" and always writing "endless pages of blame Dad, blame step-Dad, blame the daughters" and so on, must have been reading a different book. Far from blaming, Pat Henry seeks and achieves ongoing personal growth throughout her voyage, as she questions her past life and finds insight into her own actions that were responsible for much of the tribulations and sadness of her younger life. Pat Henry had the courage not only to take off on an around the world voyage with next to no resources other than her own limited, but ever growing talents, but to embark on a voyage of insight and acceptance of personal responsibility for her life. I found this book to have far more depth than others, such as "Passage to Juneau", that had much more press and sales.
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Summary: Loved this book
Review: We were fortunate to meet Pat Henry (author of "Grace of the Sea" while visiting Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We bought her book and couldn't put it down. Even though this book should be read by every women, the men loved it too.
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Summary: Pat thinks as many of us do, but her actions are much bolder
Review: What an amazing and surprising journey I began when I opened By the Grace of the Sea and began to read. By the close of the first chapter I was fascinated with this author Pat Henry -- who she was, where she had come from and where in the world was she going. That's exactly where she was going, and to see the ports and people through her sensitive, often passionate words was a wonderful experience. I have never been in the ocean, or even sailed on a sailboat. I have never been abroad, and I am not an architect, artist, or even a woman, but I was amazed at how often I easily identified with the thoughts and feelings Pat sprinkles through her book.
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