Sailing to the Far Horizon
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- ISBN 9780299201906
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2004
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Of the legions of wayfarers who shared in the tall ship Sofia's diverse and colorful history, only seventeen were on board when she went down. Of those who survived to tell the tale, none has...until now. More than twenty-five years ago, Pamela Sisman Bitterman began her journey on board a 123-foot, sixty-year-old sailing ship being readied for its second global circumnavigation. The details of events from this journey endure as vividly today as when Bitterman was a naive "shellback" swabbie, later ship's bos'un, and finally acting first mate. In the end, she was merely one on a liferaft of grateful survivors. Sailing to the Far Horizon draws on original journal entries, photographs, and excerpts from official Coast Guard documents that chronicle the fascinating enigma that was the Sofia and its dramatic end.
Pamela Sisman Bitterman teaches maritime history and seamanship at the San Diego Maritime Museum. She has been sailing for many years.
