For a short while in the late 1970s, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was probably the most famous woman in communist Poland. As the first woman to sail solo around the world, she was feted in the media, paraded at official events and sent on speaking tours to show off her world-beating achievement.
In today’s Poland, however, her name has been all but forgotten – something the author of a new book about her life and journey hopes to change.
