Rowing the Atlantic – The Book

rowing the atlanticRoz’s inspirational book about her solo Atlantic row, entitled Rowing The Atlantic – Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean, is published in the US by Simon & Schuster. It tells the story of a thirty-something’s journey from an ordinary career woman to an adventurer facing the most intimidating challenge of her life. We hear about her struggles, her shortcomings and fears – and how she discovered that she had it within her to rise to this seemingly impossible task.

Check out Roz’s author page on the Simon & Schuster website – video, forthcoming appearances, and more!

In case you have formed the impression that I am some kind of athlete, adventurer, or adrenaline junkie, I should make clear at the outset my near total lack of qualifications for this undertaking.

Stuck in a corporate job rut and an unraveling marriage, at the age of thirty-six Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary – the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn’t going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life’s savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race.

Her 3,000-mile trial by sea became the challenge of a lifetime. Of the twenty-six crews that set out from La Gomera, six capsized or sank and didn’t make it to the finish line in Antigua. There were times when she thought she had hit her absolute limit, but alone in the middle of the ocean had no choice but to find the strength to carry on.

In Rowing the Atlantic we are brought on board when Savage’s dreams of feasts are nourished by yet another freeze-dried meal. When her gloves wear through to her blistered hands. When her headlamp is the only light on a pitch black night ocean that extends indefinitely in all directions. When, one by one, all four of her oars break. When her satellite communication fails.

Stroke by stroke, Savage discovers there is so much more to life than a fancy sports car and a power-suit job. Flashing back to key moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans, and how this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendonitis-inducing reality. And finally, Savage discovers in the rough waters of the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find.

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“Bold and invigorating” – Kirkus Reviews

“Mind boggling, inspiring, and a book that I just couldn’t put down. A fantastic read!” – Lynne Cox, author of Swimming To Antarctica

“A great armchair adventure.” - Publishers’ Weekly Online Review

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