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Maiden Voyage

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Tania Aebi's "Maiden Voyage" depicts a troubled teen's real life circumnavigation of the Earth on a small sailboat. She knows little of sailing but quickly masters her boat and the wind that takes her around the world. She meets plenty of friends throughout her real life journey that took place in in the late '80's. Several close calls make sure the journey never goes quite as planned.

Good book for those who are interested in sailing or dream of adventure abroad. Ms. Aebi's circumnavigation is a learning experience not only for her, but for all of those who read her book. "Maiden Voyage" is one of Amazon's best kept secrets! A great book!

I love this book! I love the balence of sailing, romace, and of Tania's coming of age through her experiences of her travels. I just read this and immediately started to read it again. It was a great insperation. I could relate to the pitfalls of her highschool experience with school and family. And even could when she was at sea.

This book was one of the first that I read in the True Adventure genre and while I have read many since and some that are certainly more sound from a writing perspective, few have come close to the honesty and beauty of the journey that Tania Aebi shares with us in this story. This book does go in to a great amount of detail about sailing, but I think this is superbly important. It gives us insight into what it takes in order to make a journey like this one and we get to see and experience with her the huge learning curve of sailing and all the intricacies of doing it well. I, in fact, appreciated all the detail because I learned from it and am a better reader of sailing stories as a result.

Tania shares so much of herself and the challenges she overcame and the personal growth she experiences. I had a hard time putting the book down as so much happens and you want to know how this young inexperienced woman would handle it. It's always great to find a good adventure story, even more so when it is about a young woman, this book will certainly not disappoint anyone who wants to see life experienced on this incredible journey.

Sure, I started to fantasize about becoming a pirate, so I bought this book (and many others) to investigate others' seafaring experiences.

This was such an eye-opening, enthralling read. I think I read this book in just a couple of days, I couldn't put it down. Not only was it educational, but it was interesting, amusing and, sometimes, downright scary.

Great read.

Well, not exactly, but there are plenty of parallels.
More or less thrown into this journey by a zany, wizard-like father, Tania begins her Tolkienesque voyage with no real understanding of the difficulties involved. After experiencing many adventures, some real dangers, and even a bit of romance, she returns home a wiser, stronger, and altogether more mature woman. Heartwarming, authentic, and honest, Tania proves herself to be a sailor and author in the tradition of the grandfather of single-handed circumnavigators, old Slocum himself.
A page-turner.

I thought this was a good book, but not a great one. I plan to give it to my 15 year old niece and I think it will be perfect for her. The book is a coming of age adventure about a late teen girl setting out on an adventure sailing around the world. For me, I wished she would have come of a little more age. The book felt like it was written by a person younger than the author actually was. The author seemed incredibly ignorant and naive at the opening of the story, and though she grew, those traits irritated me throughout. The last line of the book made me groan out loud. I loved the sailing and adventure aspects, I liked the family background stories, I hated the teen girl drama. I believe I am the wrong audience, but still. All that aside, from a story point of view, I felt the book ended really flat. I thought there was another chapter and was surprised to see it was actually the end.

This is a fantastic narrative of a 'special' father's way to deal with his unmotivated daughter. He bought her a boat and send her sailing (alone) around the world!

What Tania did is extraordinary, even with the help of her dad, who flew around the world to bring her support and spare parts several times during her journey.

Tania had no sailing experience (when she started) and made sailing her profession since the completion of her trip. She writes on every issue of Latitudes and Attitudes.

Makes very interesting reading while is fun and informative.

This is one of those books I grabbed when I didn't have anything else to read. I wasn't expecting much - I was very pleasantly suprised. Most everyone dreams of some great adventure - she proved you could sail solo around the world with almost no experience at all. I would recommend this book to almost anyone. It will make you want to get a boat - be careful.

Don't start reading this book if you have any plans...you'll break them. I couldn't put it down until I was finished and then reread several parts soon after. I loved it.

Maiden Voyage is a truly great book. It contains everything you could ever want in a novel. It has comedy, drama, hardship, excitment, and even romance. The story is truly amazing, about an 18 year old girl who sails around the world. She starts out with very little knowledge about sailing and by the end she gains a world of new and useful knowledge. A neat part about this book is that throughout the author gives little facts about the places and people she meats. This makes for a very interesting read. I would recommend this book to anybody young or old who is just looking for a warm story to read.