12 non fiction challenging the pacific the first woman to row the kon-tiki route maud fontenoy the whole world celebrated when maud fontenoy became the first woman to row alone across the north atlantic raising the bar she then took on a far more difficult challenge the pacific ocean again a feat no woman had ever before accomplished a time europe 2005 hero impossible she was warned the pacific is far too vast intolerable heat a foolhardy and dangerous undertaking and what about sharks and what about pirates terrified but determined maud set off from peru in her newly built boat océor on her most ...