Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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She was/is an excellent and experienced sailor and a strong person but still undergoes terrible doubts and fears. Taková sonda do duše ženy, která se ocitla sama na místě, kde by se žádná samotná žena ocitnout nechtěla.

I think this book did a great job describing how plastic is affecting our beaches and oceans/seas and various other types of bodies of water. And in that video, Tom promoted this book that he had the chance to speak with the author herself to give her side of things for the video. The author's excessive overuse of adjectives and flowery prose to describe the simplest things made the book completely unreadable. I know next time I’m at the beach, I will be doing my bit to collect up the plastic off our beaches.He used a safety line to tether himself to the yacht in an attempt to ride out the storm and keep the boat afloat. While the writing is base level, the book makes up for it with stunning, colorful diagrams and graphics that make you realize just how full the ocean is with human litter from old Monopoly houses to actual artifacts. It was like she was writing down whatever came to mind at that moment and A LOT of her thoughts were in all caps.

On a personal level, even though this is a memoir and I respect that this depicts the author’s real experiences, I found it hard to connect with her religious outlook. Five months before the hurricane, Tami Oldham arrives in Tahiti on board the schooner Sofia and meets Richard Sharp, a British sailor.Descubrí el libro A la Deriva durante mi proceso de documentación para la escritura de la novela que estaba escribiendo en ese momento: Luces en el Mar. He had to repair broken equipment, patch up his boat, learn to fish and collect rainwater, and simply carry on in the face of one hardship after another. She has the sailboat, a good amount of fresh water, canned food and other provisions, so more than many survivors. One night, she sees a large cargo ship heading straight for Hazaña and fires multiple flares, but the ship sails on past them.