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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

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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