Dove Author:Robin Lee Graham with Derek Gill Dove promises to be the year's true adventure-romance saga for thousands of readers. It is a story of amazing daring, endurance and joy. — On July 27,1965, Robin Lee Graham, aged 16, set sail from San Pedro, California, on his 24-foot sloop, Dove, alone except for two kittens named Suzette and Joliette. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he had a... more »ccomplished what few would dare dream of, much less attempt, and along the way discovered worlds about himself and this globe.
Robin's extraordinary solo voyage to freedom and independence took him through the South Pacific to the Samoan Islands, the Fijis, the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, up the African coast and across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean, to South America, through the Panama Canal (after buying a new and bigger boat) to the Galápagos, then north to California and his home port.« less