ISBN: 0236401726
Godina izdanja: 1980
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Rosie Swale - Libras Don`t Say No
Granada, 1980
208 str.
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stanje: vrlo dobro, posveta na prvoj strani hemijskom olovkom.

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Rosie Swale-Pope, MBE, born 2 October 1946, is an author, adventurer and marathon runner who successfully completed a five-year around-the-world run, raising £250,000 for a charity that supports orphaned children in Russia and to highlight the importance of early diagnosis of prostate cancer. Other achievements include sailing single-handed across the Atlantic in a small boat, and trekking 3,000 miles (4,800 km) alone through Chile on horseback.

Rosie Darling-the skinny rebel brought up in southern Ireland by an eccentric grandmother, the conqueror of Cape Horn by catamaran en famille - is back to tell another extraordinary story. Her new life ashore is as full of the unexpected as her Irish childhood and her sea voyaging.
To win the wherewithal to build a record-breaking giant catamaran, with the help of some of the best brains in the sailing world, Rosie turns full-time fundraiser. She roves the globe meeting the rich, the famous and the dangerous; premiers, presidents and prowlers. In the offices of a large public company she finds the chairman naked. In Kyoto, she dances before a studious audience of two hundred businessmen at eleven in the morning. In a Persian Gulf sheikhdom, all her ingenuity is needed to escape the clutches of a score of sex-crazed Arabs during the fast of Ramadan.
Bur back in the mud and turmoil of the Southampton boatyard, the Great White Catamaran insatiably gobbles pounds by the grand. Under the inexorable pressure of soaring boatbuilder`s bills and ferocious Admiralty law, the quest for the fat six-figure sum becomes more and more frenetic. Financial cyclones fall upon the marriage relationship that triumphed over Cape Horn.
Rosie`s account of her escapades, her thoughts and fears, the conflict with her husband, her gradual discovery of new values, is the human, exciting, hilarious and touching story of a lone wild creature, written with Rosie`s inimitable magic.

Contents
1 Thank the Goddess for Oxfam shops
2 Had we changed? - or had the world changed?
3 The ballet of the mice
4 Ghost of a crooked house
5 False gods
6 Blue films and Carnation milk- never!
7 We conceived - a boat!
8 James Bum 003!
9 On board with five million readers
10 Bicycles and caviare
11 Government-sponsored harlot
12 The love of a future love
13 Fantasia of sponsordom
14 We stuck the pin in our rainbow bubble
15 Fate takes a hand
16 Nightmare in the sand
17 Harlot by name - but not by nature
18 I name this ship Francis Drake
19 Grievous bodily harm
20 Peering pigs and propositioning millionaires
21 I could have been a film star!
22 `I am the King of Bavaria - get in.`
23 Crumbs of hope
24 How I became a nun
25 Eve and Jimmy honorary bulldog puppies
26 Rivers of my mind begin to part