{"product_id":"rowing-for-my-life-kathleen-saville-9781628726886","title":"Rowing for My Life: Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of Cheryl Strayed's \u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e, one woman's transformational journey rowing across the savage sea--twice.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust out of college, newly wed, and set up with her husband Curt in a small town in New York, Kathleen Saville quickly realized that an ordinary life working for a better used car and a home with a mortgage would never satisfy her thirst for freedom and adventure. The year before, she and Curt had retraced Henry David Thoreau's canoe journey through the Maine Woods, and both were veteran rowers. Inspired, she suggested that they row across the Atlantic Ocean. Returning to her hometown, living on a shoestring, they built their own twenty-five-foot ocean rowboat. They set out from Morocco and, tested by adverse currents, gales, and their own inexperience, accomplished the near impossible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree years later, while they attempted to row across the Pacific, Curt was washed overboard and lost their sextant--their only means of navigation. Now, besides confronting fatigue, storms, sharks, and deadly reefs, they had to find a way to avoid becoming lost at sea and succumbing to starvation. Their ordeal in completing their crossing exposed the fissures in their marriage, and in this and subsequent adventures, Kathleen was forced to confront the difference between courage and foolhardiness. Cinematic, suspenseful, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant, her story of an unraveling marriage is also the account of finding her true self amid the life-and-death challenges at sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.\"--Henry David Thoreau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Saville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1628726881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628726886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d","brand":"Kathleen Saville","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43939401433343,"sku":"9781628726886","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3299b1b9-91c2-45ef-b70a-3258e89fd416.jpg?v=1681441275","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rowing-for-my-life-kathleen-saville-9781628726886","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}