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Sailing to the Far Horizon
Pamela Sisman Bitterman
其他書名
The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship
出版University of Wisconsin Pres, 2012-08-04
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / WomenSports & Recreation / Water Sports / SailingTransportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History
ISBN02992019379780299201937
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5TBUvTbWMegC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.