One Girl One Dream by Laura Dekker
By Tim White
New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
320 pp. $16.99 (paperback), $7.99 (Kindle).
On August 21, 2010, Laura Dekker—then just fourteen years old—began an incredible journey from the Netherlands in a run-down forty-foot boat. When she sailed it into port in Simpson Bay, St. Martin, seventeen months later, she became the youngest person ever to sail around the worl…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to The Objective Standard to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.