Daring the Sea: The True Story of the First Men to Row Across the Atlantic Ocean
- ISBN-10
- 0806525274
- ISBN-13
- 9780806525273
- Category
- Atlantic Ocean
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Citadel Press
- Author
- David W. Shaw
Description
In 1896, two Norwegian immigrants from the New Jersey coast set out to attain their piece of the American Dream by risking their lives to achieve the seemingly impossible. Convinced that they had no bright future as clam diggers supplying the Fulton Fish Market in New York City, they conceived a plan to set a world record by becoming the first men to row across the Atlantic Ocean. To family, friends, and those intimate with the sea, the plan appeared suicidal; but to the two men, George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen, the crossing represented a way out of lives offering little promise. Their hope was to attract worldwide attention and lucrative lecture and exhibition fees if they succeeded.
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