Rowing the Atlantic

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Roz Savage discusses leaving her corporate career to take up a life of adventure. She was the first solo woman ever to enter the 3,000-mile Atlantic Rowing Race. In Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean, she describes the harrowing journey and how it led her to discover a kind of happiness she was searching for.

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