LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Alastair Humphreys is a much-celebrated adventurer of modern times - a man who has biked around the world, invented the ‘Microadventure’ and of course rowed solo across the Atlantic. He has also written extensively, and in The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean has perhaps penned his most inspirational work yet.
The central character, Lucy, is a young girl with all the characteristics we want our daughters to have - independent, challenging and ambitious. Lucy is an adventurer at heart who simply knows that there is something out there waiting for her, that there are things she needs to move on from and things she needs to explore. Adventure is life for both Lucy and Alastair. When reading Lucy’s adventures at sea it is impossible not to recognise that they have an authenticism which comes from the author’s own experiences in a rowing boat. Whether that be a sunset, a huge wave, a sore bottom or a humpback whale, Lucy’s descriptions ring true, and by putting a fictional girl into that environment it allows us to see how vulnerable Humphreys must also have felt in reality.
On another level, the book has a strong educational message, as between episodes on the waves we can read the homework of Lucy’s friends back at school as they follow her progress and do their own research on everything from how tides work to plastic pollution. Anyone reading The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean can only be inspired to care for this planet and make adventure a part of their own story.
Greg Hackett
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The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean Synopsis
Lucy wants to explore the world, and do something daring and difficult. But people laugh at her when she hatches a plan to row across the Atlantic Ocean. So her family rallies round to help prepare for the journey, loading her boat with supplies for 3,000 miles of rowing. Her school friends follow her from afar, learning about the ocean, its wildlife and pollution.
Alone at sea, Lucy faces seasickness, storms and a very sore bottom, not to mention close encounters with ships and a humpback whale. Yet there are also the joys of wandering seabirds, shooting stars and magical sunsets, as she finds she is capable of more than she ever imagined.
Step aboard and join Lucy on her life-changing adventure to become the girl who rowed the ocean.
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9781785633324 |
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12th August 2022 |
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Alastair Humphreys |
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Lightning Books an imprint of Eye Books |
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Paperback |
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288 pages |
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Press Reviews
Alastair Humphreys Press Reviews
An inspirational ocean adventure' - Bear Grylls
'Lucy's epic voyage brought back happy memories of my own ocean crossings. It's a realistic and inspiring tale of adventure at sea' - Sarah Outen
'The perfect handbook for anyone young or old in search of adventure' - Steve Backshall
'Rowing the Atlantic and caring for our wild places are very close to my heart. Well done, Lucy!' - Ben Fogle
'We need more young people like Lucy getting active and having adventures in the freedom of nature' - Helen Glover
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About Alastair Humphreys
Alastair Humphreys is an adventurer and author. After training as a teacher, he spent four years cycling round the world, a journey of 46k miles through 60 countries and five continents. Sir Ranulph Fiennes called it, 'the first great adventure of the millenium'. Alastair has also walked across India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, rowed to France, run six marathons through the Sahara Desert, crossed Iceland by foot and packraft.
He has recently become the pioneer of 'microadventures', a movement encouraging people to seek out short, local adventures.
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