Saville, Kathleen (1956–)
Saville, Kathleen (1956–)
American long-distance rower and explorer. Born Kathleen McNally, Mar 22, 1956, in New England; lived in Derby Line, Vermont; m. Curtis Saville (1946–2001, died while on a solo desert mountain expedition in the eastern desert of Egypt); children: Christopher.
With husband, rowed the custombuilt craft Excalibur from North Africa to the West Indies, the 1st woman in the world to row the Atlantic (1981); with husband, rowed icebound coast of Labrador (1982) and length of Mississippi River from Northern Minnesota to Gulf of Mexico (1983); with husband, rowed the South Pacific from Peru to Australia, and conducted scientific work, on longest rowing voyage ever recorded (about 10,000 miles, 1984); was a USIS English teaching fellow in Pakistan (1993–95), and taught in Kuwait and American University in Cairo.