Jessica Watson

The personal story of the youngest person to sail around the world single handedly from October 2009 to May 2010 - at the age of 16: 240 days and 23,000 nautical miles.

True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took On The World

Erin Cawthorn

I decided to read this book after watching the movie adaptation. Although an inspiring story I do believe the movie was the better format for this. The book details a lot of things which are slightly repetitive and isn’t what I would call a novel. I didn’t realize until after I bought it but it is basically a collection of the blog posts she made during the voyage thrown into a book with minimal additional text surrounding the details. I think I would have enjoyed this more if it was less just a copy paste of the blog post and more of an interpretation. That being said I recommend everyone explore this story because it’s pretty incredible!

True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took On The World

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