We specialize in hard to find items
All Categories
Ten Degrees of Reckoning: A True Story of Survival
Share Tweet
*Price and Stocks may change without prior notice
*Packaging of actual item may differ from photo shown
- Electrical items MAY be 110 volts.
- 7 Day Return Policy
- All products are genuine and original
About Ten Degrees Of Reckoning: A True Story Of Survival
Product Description An international bestseller. A remarkable true story of one woman's courage. In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. Three years into their incredible journey, a nearby freighter altered its course by a mere ten degrees-and everything changed... After forty-four hours in the icy water clinging to an overturned dinghy, her back broken and paralyzed below the waist, Judith miraculously survived, winding up in a small community on the New Zealand coast. Gripping, unbelievable yet true, Judith's story of courage, survival, and retribution is alternately heartrending and uplifting. It's also a story of unbreakable bonds, of shattering loss, and of one woman reborn through the strength of friendship and the profound love of strangers who became family. Review a"Ten Degrees of Reckoning" is a rare book. It both celebrates the love and spirit of adventure of the Sleavin family and tells in harrowing and gut-wrenching detail about the tragedy that claims the lives of three out of four of its members. To people who say: I canat read such a sad story, I say only, you must. You must learn about and celebrate Annie and Ben and Mike so that they may be remembered. You must marvel at Judyas bravery, her resilience, her will. You must repeat their story to others so that what befell them doesn't happen again. Read "Ten Degrees of Reckoning," You must.a aAnn Hood, author of "The Knitting Circle" and "Comfort: A Journey Through Grief" About the Author Hester Rumberg was an oral/maxillofacial radiologist and an experienced offshore sailor. Along with Judith Sleavin, she established the Sleavin Family Foundation to promote maritime safety. Her book Ten Degrees of Reckoning stands as a tribute to the Sleavin family. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph Foreword One - November 24, 1995 Two - Ten-Year Plan Three - Beyond Armchair Cruising Four - Bonjour de Guadeloupe Five - The Littlest Captain Six - Abandoned by Grace Seven - Rules of the Road Eight - Grave Impact Nine - Obligations and Procedures Ten - Oceans of Sorrow Eleven - Searching for Melinda Lee Twelve - The Moan of Condolences Thirteen - The Sailboat Fourteen - Willing to Live Fifteen - Realities Sixteen - The Burden of Memory Seventeen - Gathering the Evidence Eighteen - The Investigation Nineteen - Aotearoa Twenty - Trials and Mediations Twenty-one - Reflections Twenty-Two - Ten Degrees of Reckoning Epilogue Acknowledgements ABOUT THE AUTHOR AMY EINHORN BOOKS Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons Publishers Since 1838 a member of the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright © 2007 by Hester Rumberg Maps by Margaret Davidson, courtesy Hester Rumberg Letter pages 125-127 © the Polley Family Photograph page 247 © Judith Sleavin Photograph page 249 © Hester Rumberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rumberg, Hester. Ten degrees of reckoning : the true story of a family’s love and the will to survive / Hester Rumberg.—1st American ed. p. cm
