Child of the Sea

ISBN: 9781408178591 出版年：2012 页码：222 Doina Cornell Bloomsbury Publishing

A Child of the Sea is the true story of Jimmy Cornell's daughter sailing around the world on the family's small yacht from the abased on Doina's diaries, letters and memories. From 1975 to 1981 the Cornell family visited 54 countries, sailed momiles, and travelled about the same distance overland. The story is told from Doina's point of view, although the mabook focuses on the family's three-yePacifaged between 10 and 13.Child of the Sea is unusual in that it gives a glimpthat most young children couldn't imagine, swimming, diving and playing the days away in deserted anchorages; visitimost beautiful islands in the world; falling in love with the sea in all its ever-changing moods, from balmy trade wind ocean passages to the treacherous breakers that crash onto tropical reefs, and taking a full part in sailing and handling the yacht on passage. The book also tells the stocoming of age in the South Pacific, understanding different cultures and values, and experiencing at first-hand how people judge each other depending on the colour of thethe time on Easter Island when tourists mistake Doina for a Polynesian girl, to her and her brother's hostile prejudiced reception back in an English school at the end of their journey.What do children need to grow up happy and healthy? Security with their family; an element of risk; freedom to explore the world; openness to other peoples and cultures; closeneand the elements and an appreciation of the environment and our finite resources. The sailiall this and more, and this book captures it all.