Sailing Through Life: Memoirs of A Young Girl

Sailing Through Life: Memoirs of A Young Girl

Author: Shweta Bisht

Publisher: Educreation Publishing

Published: 2017-05-10

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13:

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Sometimes the perfect life holds the perfect lies... The story begins with the childhood of Elisa and her friends, and then it gradually deals with a long span of almost ten years. The story deals with a five-year-old relationship of young and beautiful Elisa, which will be in tatters. A destruction of faith happens giving birth to a newly evolved person. Elisa is bright, talented, ravishing, sympathetic, sensitive, and beautiful. At 19, she is the most precious and valuable gift in the world to her parents and has a shining career ahead of her. Ryan is a young man; full of promises, despite the shadow his own, emotionally troubled, mother casts over him. Then one night, Elisa makes a decision that tears their world apart. She still thinks that sometimes all she needs is someone to love her, a cuddle, a hug, or a kiss. Will she be able to find a proper balance in her life? She has her own journey to tell the world. The journey of blessings, lust, friends, ambitions, broken promises, fake relationships, greed, unforgettable love, spirituality, and the much- needed peace. The twists and turns in her life gave her a lesson to live life in a more meaningful and constructive way. Life is all about appreciating and accepting things that hold true importance; this novel will take readers on an extensive journey, searching many themes of life as we grow and move on.


Fourteen

Fourteen

Author: Leslie Johansen Nack

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1631529420

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Winner of 5 independent book awards, including NIEA, Next Generation Indie, Independent Press Award, Beverly Hills Book Awards and Readers’ Favorites After her mother and father divorce at age seven, Leslie quickly learns the hard lessons of being Dad's favorite. The abuse begins at age nine and doesn't end until she begins to fight back, finally, at age fourteen. Her father, a larger-than-life Norwegian, assumed full custody of Leslie and her two sisters and moved the family from their 63-acre rustic ranch in Northern California to a 45-foot sailboat in Southern California. The family spent two years living aboard their boat preparing for the trip of their father's dreams: a trip around the world. On February 5, 1975, the family set sail for French Polynesia. Intense and inspiring, Fourteen is a coming-of-age adventure story about a young girl who comes into her own power, fights back against abuse, becomes an accomplished sailor, and falls in love with the ocean and the natural world. The outer voyage is a mirror of her inner journey, and her goal is to find the strength to endure in a dangerous world, and within a difficult family.


Boat Girl

Boat Girl

Author: Melanie Neale

Publisher: Beating Windward Press

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 098382522X

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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the author's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the U.S. East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. As an adult, she lived aboard her own 28-foot sailboat and had several relationships trying to find someone who wasn't intimidated by her stubborn independence and free-spirited lifestyle.


Child of the Sea

Child of the Sea

Author: Doina Cornell

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1408181533

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A Child of the Sea is the true story of Jimmy Cornell's daughter sailing around the world on the family's small yacht from the age of 7 to 14, based on Doina's diaries, letters and memories. From 1975 to 1981 the Cornell family visited 54 countries, sailed more than 68,000 miles, and travelled about the same distance overland. The story is told from Doina's point of view, although the main part of the book focuses on the family's three-year stay in the Pacific when she is aged between 10 and 13. Child of the Sea is unusual in that it gives a glimpse into a life that most young children couldn't imagine, swimming, diving and playing the days away in deserted anchorages; visiting some of the most beautiful islands in the world; falling in love with the sea in all its ever-changing moods, from balmy trade wind ocean passages to the treacherous breakers that crash onto tropical reefs, and taking a full part in sailing and handling the yacht on passage. The book also tells the story of a girl's coming of age in the South Pacific, understanding different cultures and values, and experiencing at first-hand how people judge each other depending on the colour of their skin - from the time on Easter Island when tourists mistake Doina for a Polynesian girl, to her and her brother's hostile prejudiced reception back in an English school at the end of their journey. What do children need to grow up happy and healthy? Security with their family; an element of risk; freedom to explore the world; openness to other peoples and cultures; closeness with nature and the elements and an appreciation of the environment and our finite resources. The sailing life offers all this and more, and this book captures it all.


A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage

A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage

Author: Guirec Soudée

Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1771647051

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“Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping … readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.”—BOOKLIST A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before. His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique. Guirec never intended to sail the world with a chicken, but after reaching the Caribbean, he and Monique made for Greenland—and emerged from the pack ice 100 days later. Their next goal? San Francisco. Then, Antarctica. But first, could they navigate the treacherous Northwest Passage? One thing was for sure: Monique would help her trusty skipper by laying an egg! Heart-stopping adventure story: navigating treacherous icebergs with a chicken on the mast is just one of many nail-biting maneuvers from this action-packed book. Perfect for readers of The Art of Racing in the Rain: Guirec and Monique’s bond is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Inspirational: Guirec shows that all you have to do is believe to achieve something big. Photographs and maps: show the epic voyage and provide breaks in the text. Guirec and Monique’s unbelievable journey won the hearts of people all over the world and caused a social media frenzy when it happened. Now, in their long-awaited first book, readers will uncover their gripping voyage from start to finish.


The Hard Way Around

The Hard Way Around

Author: Geoffrey Wolff

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-11-29

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0307745457

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In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.


Swell

Swell

Author: LIZ. CLARK

Publisher: Patagonia

Published: 2024-05-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781952338229

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With Reckless Abandon

With Reckless Abandon

Author: Jim Sharp

Publisher: Down East Books

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1608930165

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Here is the inspiring story of a man who overcame childhood polio to live an adventure-filled life as captain of Maine's most famous windjammer, the schooner Adventure, now a National Historic Landmark in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Captain Jim shares his adventures afloat, his battles with bureaucracy, and even how he created one of Maine's most unusual restaurants.


Unsinkable

Unsinkable

Author: Abby Sunderland

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1400203082

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The stirring narrative of Unsinkable tells sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland's remarkable true story of attempting to become the youngest person ever to sail solo around the world.