Maiden Voyage

by Bernadette Brennan and Tania Aebi

Book Overview

Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345410122
• ISBN13: 9780345410122
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Riveting! Refreshing! Realistic!

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.

A True Romantic Adventure

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.

Coming of Age

There are thousands of us who sail and many more of us who write, rarely are the two talents combined as well as they are here. You do not simply read Maiden Voyage, you take the single handed journey around the world along with Tania, and at the end, your life too will be changed. Do not hesitate, if you have not already read this book click "add to cart" now, you will not be dissapointed. The fragile beauty of this story of a young woman's rite of passage is waiting to tug at your emotions and haunt your memory. After reading it, you'll be back to buy a copy for a friend.

You gotta read this 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.