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Taking On The World

Inspired by a sailing trip with her aunt on the East Coast when she was four, Ellen MacArthur saved her school dinner money for eight years to buy her first boat, an eight-foot dinghy called Thr`penny Bit. A bout of glandular fever in her final year at school ended her plans to become a vet. But, transfixed by scenes from the Whitbread Race being shown on television while she convalesced, she resolved to become a sailor instead.In February 2001 24-year-old Ellen MacArthur completed in just ninety-four days the Vendee Globe, the round-the-world`s toughest race. And she became the fastest Briton ever to sail around the world alone, the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed and the fastest woman to ever have done so.In Taking on the World, Ellen tells her enthralling and inspiring story, showing how courage, passion and determination can overcome all obstacles – and how one young woman from landlocked Derbyshire came to find a new home among the waves making her dreams come true…

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