title: Untamed Seas: One Woman's True Story of Shipwreck and Survival
author:  Deborah Scaling Kiley 
description: "A riveting and frightening true story told with startling candor and power. I read it without breathing." -- <i>Dodge Morgan, author of <i>The Voyage of American Promise</i></i><br /><br />"[Untamed Seas] makes most other accounts of shipwreck and survival seem like cotton candy. I couldn't put it down." -- <i>Lawrence Millman, author of <i>Last Places</i></i>
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  ## [Dedication](9780062679871_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-1)
  
  
  _For Francesca,_
  
  
  _and all the wild girls_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [Part One](9780062679871_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-2)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Maiden Voyage of the Princess  
  by Dame Edna Sackville
  
  
  You have all heard by now of the Princess of the Pacific, the Farrar Line’s
  newest and most impressive ship. But only I, dearest readers, can give you the
  full story of her maiden voyage, for today I sail on the celebrated ship into
  the open ocean, that vast and magical field of water—a landscape by turns
  starkly brilliant under the rays of a fierce sun, or dizzying, changeable,
  windswept. Who cares about all that, you may wonder, when there are three
  formal dining rooms, a Turkish bath, and a ladies’ couturier on board? Fear
  not, I will give every detail, my sweet ones, the landscape and the parties.
  It is sure to be a