Ten degrees of reckoning : the true story of survival / Hester Rumberg.
Ten degrees of reckoning : the true story of survival / Hester Rumberg.
Alternate Title
:
Ten degrees of reckoning : a true story of survival
By
:
Rumberg, Hester.
Publication Date
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2010, 2007
Publication Information
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New York : Berkley Books,
Edition
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Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Description
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257 p. : ill., maps.
Subject Term
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Shipwreck victims.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
Shipwrecks -- New Zealand.
Boating accidents.
Cargo ships.
Summary
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In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. Three years into their incredible journey, a nearby freighter altered its course by a mere ten degrees-and everything changed ... After forty-four hours in the icy water clinging to an overturned dinghy, her back broken and paralyzed below the waist, Judith miraculously survived, winding up in a small community on the New Zealand coast. Gripping, unbelievable yet true, Judith's story of courage, survival, and retribution is alternately heartrending and uplifting. It's also a story of unbreakable bonds, of shattering loss, and of one woman reborn through the strength of friendship and the profound love of strangers who became family.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780425232101
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