Dove (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Derek L. T. Gill, Robin Lee Graham
- First Published: 1972
- Time of Work: 1965–1970
- Setting: California, Hawaii, Samoa, New Guinea, Australia, Surinam, South Africa, Panama, and many other islands and ports around the world
- Principal Characters: Robin Lee Graham, Lyle Graham, Norma Graham, Jud Croft, Patricia (Patti) Ratterree Graham, Gil Grosvenor, Stewart (Mac) Mclaren
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: 1960’s, Voyages, Teenagers, Autobiography, Sailing or sailors, Adventure, Panama or Panamanians
- Locales: California, Hawaii, South Africa, Australia, Suriname, New Guinea, Samoa, Panama
Form and Content
In Dove, Robin Lee Graham recounts his adventures as he sailed from Los Angeles in the summer of 1965 to begin the five-year voyage that took him around the world. Making use of more than two hundred hours of tape recordings, log entries, letters and newspaper articles, Graham, in thirteen chapters, documents the terror, frustrations, and joys of being a sixteen-year-old sailor encountering the mental and physical challenges of his solitary adventure. The first and last chapters serve as prelude and postscript to the adventure itself. The first chapter...
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