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Of Foreign Build
- From Corporate Girl to Sea-Gypsy Woman
- Narrated by: Michelle Michaels
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
After suffering an emotionally-brutal bereavement and against her counselor's advice, Jackie ran away. Suddenly within a new culture, with a new husband and no friends, she was living in the obscure world of cruising with zero knowledge of boats.
Crashing within the first 24 hours, Jackie realized life would never be the same again: a floating home with no fridge or hot water, and with a dinghy instead of a car. Suffering self-doubts, she became fearful of her new world.
The first off-shore voyage took Jackie into a ferocious storm, which battered her physically and mentally. Amid the raging seas, Jackie shed the fear she'd been harboring.
Soon she was blissfully voyaging around the world, but she still carried the mixed emotions of losing one man, while falling head over heels in love with another.
Not only did Jackie deal successfully with the challenges of her new existence, she also battled with the testosterone-fueled nautical world to become both a professional captain and a qualified maritime teacher.
Most importantly, Jackie found herself.
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- SUE
- 27-04-17
Well written book
The narrator ruined this book for us. The reading style, voices and knowledge of pronunciation of both nautical terms and even the English language was appalling. Just wish Jackie had read the book herself. Maybe it could be re-recorded and we could listen again, without constant irritation.
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- william r
- 29-04-17
Good story
Great story, some great adventures over the globe. Overall an enjoyable tale if you get past the very strange narration, which can be very irritating.
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- Cindy Rice
- 02-09-15
Great voice actress and story
Would you consider the audio edition of Of Foreign Build to be better than the print version?
I love listening to stories, I can keep doing things with my hands while listening where as I can't if I am reading it. I can crochet, stare at the ceiling and visualize what is being told.
What about Michelle Michaels’s performance did you like?
I liked the tones in her voice. Very easy to listen to her.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
A little bit of both. I'm not sure I could give up everything and go be a sea gypsies woman. I would love to be at sea for a while but not for life.
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- ian
- 30-08-16
A trial to listen to!
An at best average book of mild interest. She is definitely a glass half full type of person, suffering from insecurity and lack of confidence.
The narration probably doesn't help. It is worse than dreadful! The woman can't read one complete sentence without breaking it down into machine gun like blocks of four or five words. Ratatattat, Ratatattat. Sped up to 1.25x it almost sounds like a complete sentence.
Emotions, accents and male voices are bizarre, odd, comical and are poorly portrayed,
There is some duplication too.
I can't recommend this book. The content is disappointingly uninspiring and the narration will test your patience to the extreme.
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