Roz Savage (Author of Rowing the Atlantic)

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Roz Savage

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Born

in Nantwich, Cheshire, The United Kingdom

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Sports

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Enid Blyton (yes, seriously! the first adventure books I ever enjoyed ...more

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Roz Savage is an ocean rower, environmental campaigner, author and speaker.

In case this makes her sound intrepid, you should know that as a child she was small, unathletic, and bookish (and is not so different now). Her parents were both Methodist preachers and moved house frequently, so the young Rosalind took refuge in books. She yearned to be a writer herself, but as she went through that painful process called "growing up", she lost sight of her dream.

She went to London and worked as a management consultant for 11 years, until an early mid-life crisis combined with an environmental epiphany made her decide to transform her life. She turned her back on a materialistic lifestyle and set out to row across oceans, using her adventures to Roz Savage is an ocean rower, environmental campaigner, author and speaker.

In case this makes her sound intrepid, you should know that as a child she was small, unathletic, and bookish (and is not so different now). Her parents were both Methodist preachers and moved house frequently, so the young Rosalind took refuge in books. She yearned to be a writer herself, but as she went through that painful process called "growing up", she lost sight of her dream.

She went to London and worked as a management consultant for 11 years, until an early mid-life crisis combined with an environmental epiphany made her decide to transform her life. She turned her back on a materialistic lifestyle and set out to row across oceans, using her adventures to raise awareness of top environmental issues. Now she had something to write about.

Since embarking on her first ocean in 2005, she has braved 20-foot waves, been capsized 3 times in 24 hours, and faced death by dehydration when both her watermakers broke. She has encountered whales, dolphins, sharks, and turtles, and admired the timeless beauty of sunrises, sunsets, and star-filled night skies. She has been pushed beyond her limits many times, and forced to find inner resources she never knew existed - courage, mental strength, patience, and tenacity.

She now holds four world records for ocean rowing, including first woman to row solo across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. She has rowed over 15,000 miles, taken around 5 million oarstrokes, and spent cumulatively over 500 days of her life at sea in a 23-foot rowboat.

Her first book, Rowing The Atlantic Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean, was published in 2009. Her second book, based on her Pacific crossing, is called Stop Drifting Start Rowing, and is published in October 2013. Her goal in writing is to share the lessons she has learned the hard way, both on and off the ocean, in the hope that they might inspire and motivate others to dream big, get out of their comfort zones, and tackle their own personal challenges the only way there is - one oarstroke at a time.

In 2010 she was named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic. In 2013 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen鈥檚 Birthday Honours. She lives in London with her partner, Howard. ...more

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	Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean 4.02 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn鈥檛.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

tags: achievement, best-friends, criticism, kindness, self-doubt

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“When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

tags: achievement, challenge, life-purpose, mountains

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“It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this task, and that I was uniquely equipped to pursue this quest. It was a perfect collision of personality, past experience, purpose, and timing.”
― Roz Savage, Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific

tags: life-purpose, quest, timing

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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― T.S. Eliot

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

tags: courage, daring, discovery, exploration, inspirational

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
― Marianne Williamson

tags: darkness, fear, inadequacy, inspirational, light, powerful

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“The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
― Helen Keller

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