By the Grace of the Sea - A Woman's Solo Odyssey Around the World

The enchanting story of a woman who in late middle age set off on impulse on a trans-Pacific singlehanded voyage, which over eight years became a circumnavigation. She arrived home in 1997 at Acapulco, having become the first American woman to sail alone around the world (and the oldest too !). She overcame health problems, hazards, lack of financial resource, equipment failures and periods of great solitude. But her watercolour paintings which she did along the way show her unflagging interest in the colourful places and people she met along the way, and she tells the story like an artist. An inspiration to solo woman sailors everywhere ! Maps and colour images. Pb. 320pp.