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Taking on the World
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- By Ellen MacArthur
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- Published: 26th Jun 2003
- ISBN: 0141006978
- Pages: 416
- Size: 198mm x 129mm
From Word of Sport:
Written without a ghost, this fascinating account of her life naturally focuses on her incredible achievements in the 2001 Vendee Globe. It's a dramatic story, trenchant and gripping, featuring great chunks of the race diary she kept.
From the Publisher:
In February 2001 twenty-four year old Ellen MacArthur completed the Vendée Globe, the world’s toughest race. As the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe singlehanded and as the fastest woman to ever have done so, her achievement was remarkable. But how had a young woman from landlocked Derbyshire come to find a new home among the waves?
In Taking on the World, Ellen tells her story, from saving pennies to buy her first boat through sailing around Britain as a teenager to racing the Vendee Globe itself. Enthralling and inspiring in equal measure, its shows how courage, passion and determination can overcome all obstacles – and how one young woman made her dreams come true.
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