Alastair Humphreys is a much-celebrated adventurer of modern times - a man who has biked around the world, invented the ‘Microadventure’ and of course rowed solo across the Atlantic. He has also written extensively, and in The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean has perhaps penned his most inspirational work yet.
The central character, Lucy, is a young girl with all the characteristics we want our daughters to have - independent, challenging and ambitious. Lucy is an adventurer at heart who simply knows that there is something out there waiting for her, that there are things she needs to move on from and things she needs to explore.
Adventure is life for both Lucy and Alastair. When reading Lucy’s adventures at sea it is impossible not to recognise that they have an authenticism which comes from the author’s own experiences in a rowing boat. Whether that be a sunset, a huge wave, a sore bottom or a humpback whale, Lucy’s descriptions ring true, and by putting a fictional girl into that environment it allows us to see how vulnerable Humphreys must also have felt in reality.
On another level, the book has a strong educational message, as between episodes on the waves we can read the homework of Lucy’s friends back at school as they follow her progress and do their own research on everything from how tides work to plastic pollution. Anyone reading The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean can only be inspired to care for this planet and make adventure a part of their own story.
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.
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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.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean features in the following genres: Adventure Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Ecological and Environmental Interest - Fiction, Recommendations, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean was written by Alastair Humphreys and published by Lightning Books an imprint of Eye Books
The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean has 280 pages
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.
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