Shipwrecked in paradise

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Raised to a life of relentless hard work as one of seven children of a single mother, Julie Waterman was married and having her own first child by the time she was 17. At 23 she was running her own cleaning company, making such a success of it that she was soon employing 400 people. But at 35 she gave it all up to buy a second-hand yacht and embarked on the biggest adventure of them all -- an attempt to sail single-handed round the world. -- Back cover.

subjects: Women travelers,  Biography,  Women adventurers,  Travelers' writings, British,  Voyageuses,  Biographies,  Aventurières,  Adventurers