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The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean
- Narrated by: Alastair Humphreys
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
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.
Author Biography:
Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic Ocean, and walked a lap of the M25—one of his pioneering micro-adventures.
He is the best-selling author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Nonfiction.
He has written eight books for Eye, including the best-selling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 7-12-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelized version of his transatlantic crossing.
An oceangoing follow-up to The Boy Who Biked the World, the three parts of which have together sold more than 100,000 copies. Both works are fictionalized versions of the author’s own real-life adventures.
Alastair Humphreys has rowed the Atlantic and cycled around the planet. A National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, he is the best-selling author of 14 books, including The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy and Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Nonfiction. He is a qualified teacher, and The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean leans heavily on the KS2 syllabus.
Critic 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)
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- Andy
- 14-10-22
Entertaining
Good story and entertaining, another great book, a enjoyable few hours , the authors books always want me to read / listen more
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- Andy McLaughlin
- 14-09-22
Written the excitement of a child in a boat!
A truly lovely book, filled from cover to cover with thoughtful lessons about the natural world and important lessons in resilience and grit. All this, wrapped in the warmth of a family cuddle and the mischief of getting one over your teacher.
This is a book about turning mad ideas into big adventures. (Like a modern Pippi Longstockings, Lucy also provides the opportunity to remove gender stereotypes from adventure, and we love her all the more for that!)
As an educator, I heartily recommend this to any upper Primary/early Secondary colleagues looking for a text to capture imaginations, and thank Alastair for making so many great resources available on his website to support the many learning opportunities that this book prompts.
p.s. We hope this will be turned into a short/animated film?
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- Nicola
- 04-01-23
Outstanding
I wish I’d had books like this to listen to when I was a child. What a wonderful role model Lucy is!
I cried buckets at the end, and at the epilogue. Thank you, Alastair for your acknowledgments about being a dude who is writing a girls story, it wasn’t necessary, but so appreciated! 🙏🙌
I loved every second. Any book that can make you laugh and cry, deserves a huge round of applause! Thank you!
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- Tim Hall
- 14-09-22
An inspiring story
A really enjoyable and inspiring story and my whole family enjoyed. I actually listened to the sample specifically because it was an adventure story where the main character is a girl for my daughter. After hearing it, I knew it would be a good story to buy. I think it's important my daughter hears about a range of possibilities that she could try and not be pigeonholed by the current social norms.
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