The Water in Between
by Kevin Patterson | 
Sailing Alone Around the World
by Joshua Slocum | 
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
by Francis Chichester | 
A World of My Own
by Robin Knox-Johnston | 
The Long Way
by Bernard Moitessier | 
Looking for Alaska
by Peter Jenkins | 
Becoming Odyssa
by Jennifer Pharr Davis | 
Travels
by Michael Crichton | 
Dove
by Robin Lee Graham | 
Walking the Nile
by Levison Wood | 
Walking to Listen
by Andrew Forsthoefel | 
Rowing to Latitude
by Jill Fredston | 
Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
by Ewan McGregor | 
Swimming to Antarctica
by Lynne Cox | 
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
by Paul Theroux | 
God's Middle Finger
by Richard Grant | 
360 Degrees Longitude
by John Higham | 
Child of the Jungle
by Sabine Kuegler | 
From Heaven Lake
by Vikram Seth | 
The Walk West
by Peter Jenkins |
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 which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years it was her home, as she negotiated weather, illness, fear, and ultimately, a spiritual quest that brought her home to herself....