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Dove by: Robin Graham List Price: CDN$ 15.00 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 10.95 You Save: CDN$4.05 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 910.41 EAN: 9780060920470 ISBN: 0060920475 Label: Harper Paperback Manufacturer: Harper Paperback Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: February 01, 1991 Publisher: Harper Paperback Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: February 12, 1991 Studio: Harper Paperback Sales Rank: 77104 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A book can change your lifeMy mother gave me this book 2 months after starting sailing in a tiny boat age 11. I had no idea aboat ocean sailing and had never left the British Isles. Robin inspired me. From that moment on although I hadn't realised it I was following a different path. Now 15 years later I have left the office behind and work as a professional sailor on a tropical island. Yes, Dove is written in a simple style, but that shouldn't detract from your reading pleasure. Robin paints wonderful pictures - you just let your imagination fill in the spaces. Parents: I recommend passing this to your children, just be aware of what may happen! Rating:  - Read at your own risk!Robin Graham's account of his voyage around the world in a small boat is responsible for many a youngster (and a few not-so-youngsters!) chucking their jobs and sailing away to paradise. The stuff of dreams, this voyage is narrated by a courageous, insightful, and articulate sailor. You won't be trading this book in when you visit your local used book store! It's a keeper. Rating: - Intangible Wealth Found at Journey's EndLately I've been reading books about great sea adventures, some of which for the second or third time. Among them are Robin Lee Graham's Dove, the story of his journey around the world in a 24 foot sloop begun when he was only sixteen. Also, Joshua Slocum's classic adventure Sailing Alone Around the World. Just now I'm reading Apsley Cherry-Garard's The Worst Journey In the World, named by National Geographic last year as one of the greatest adventure stories ever written. I am drawn to this genre because of my work and travels in more than 80 countries and my journey around the world in 1999, most of the way as a lone passenger aboard a modern freighter. It is to Robin Lee Graham's credit that his book is now still in print for 31 years ... Read More: Rating:  - DoveI found Dove, a memoir of a 15 year old who travels around the world in a boat, an extremely poor-written, dull book. Of course memoirs are not the best books on earth, but the author's writing style was dry and immature. For example, Graham uses the word "weird" about three times in one chapter. There is almost no emotion in this book; the author for the better part of Dove tells about where he went, what the scenery was, and about the natives of each country. The only central characters in the story are himself and his young love, Patti. The love story between Robin and Patti seemed to me very drawn-out and surprisingly dull. All the while, the author still could not tell his story in a way that might make me care about him and Patti. ... Read More: Rating: - Great book. (Victoria from Argentina)Dove is an absolutely encouraging book about a 16 year old boy (just like me) that sailed around the world in a tiny sailboat. It is not only a book for people who fancy sailing, in fact it is rather a love story than a traveller's account, because he meets a girl (Patti) in the Fiji Islands, falls in love with her and marries in Durban, Africa. However, the story is fascinating, motivating and vivid (you can realize and feel just what Robin was feeling). He accounts the fears he encounters, together with the desperation and harsh loneliness that he struggles against because of the fact that patti wasn't with him during the circumnavigation. It is a good book that I find quite immature because Robin went into the wild seas not even with a GPS, ... Read More: |
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