Table of Contents
Foreword Bear Grylls xi
Author's Note Why Write this Book? xv
Prologue Fear and Fire xix
Part 1 Beginning 1
Chapter 1 Childhood 3
Chapter2 WAG 13
Chapter3 Broken 23
Part 2 Waking 29
Chapter4 Deciding to Row an Ocean 31
Chapter5 The Stories We Tell 41
Chapter 6 Are you Serious? 49
Chapter 7 Which Way is Up? 55
Chapter 8 Unexpected 63
Chapter 9 Preparation 67
Part 3 Rowing 75
Chapter 10 How Are You Going to Cope? 77
Chapter 11 Forty-eight Hours to Learn It All 83
Chapter 12 The Acceleration Zone 89
Chapter 13 Stories in the Waters 97
Chapter 14 Things Fall Apart 103
Chapter 15 These Waves Are 109
Chapter 16 Rope and Glue 115
Chapter 17 Prayers to Michael 121
Chapter 18 It Gets Personal 129
Chapter 19 Something to Row For 135
Chapter 20 The Gamble 141
Chapter 21 Golden 149
Chapter 22 Not Quite Christmas Day 153
Chapter 23 New Year, Old Problems 157
Chapter 24 Change 163
Chapter 25 The First Person to See Barbados 169
Chapter 26 The Final Day 177
Chapter 27 The End and the Beginning 185
Chapter 28 The Missed Bottle 191
Epilogue 199
Five Things You Can Do to Fight Human Trafficking 203
Acknowledgments 207
Notes 213
About the Authors 217