Sailing to the far horizon : the restless journey and tragic sinking of a tall ship / Pamela Sisman Bitterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bitterman, Pamela Sisman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bitterman, Pamela Sisman--Travel.

Bitterman, Pamela Sisman.

Sofia (Schooner).

Shipwrecks--South Pacific Ocean.

Shipwrecks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 naive 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. "

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-283-85580-1

0-299-20193-7

OCLC:

823739135