Isabelle Autissier in 2008.

Isabelle Autissier (born 18 October 1956, Paris) is a French sailor, navigator, writer and broadcaster. She is celebrated for being the first woman to have completed a solo world navigation in competition (BOC Challenge 1991).

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• Une solitaire autour du monde (Alone Around the World), avec Eric Cocquerel (Arthaud, 1997)
• Kerguelen, le voyageur au pays de l'ombre (Kerguelen, the Traveller in the Land of Shadow), (Grasset, 2006)
• Salut au Grand Sud (Goodbye to the Great South), avec Erik Orsenna, (Stock, 2006)
• Versant océan : l'île du bout du monde (Sloping Ocean: the Island at the Bottom of the World) avec Lionel Daudet, (Grasset, 2008)

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