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Summary: I loved it!
Review: This book is a very good book for young, and old sailors alike, to read. If you understand sailing language and like the ocean and its atmospheree you will surely love this book. It tells the life story of a boy and his love of the ocean and sailing as well as a real life love story.
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Summary: Simply Wonderful.
Review: This book is truly wonderful. It is as much about people, places, and love, as it is about sailing. I feel as if I was let into the deepest part of someone's soul - to share private, happy memories. Robin - if you read these reviews - thank you for writing the book. I have never read a book twice, and have never cried at a book, until I read DOVE. In the next publishing of the DOVE- I would love to read a summary of what happened to you and your family in the following years.
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Summary: Very Stellar!
Review: If you like sailing, traveling, and love, you will absoluttely love this book.
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Summary: Greatly affected me as a young man. Immature when read now.
Review: This was the one book that captured me as a teenager. I must have read it 5 times. It caused me to love sailing and adventure both real and in the form of travel writing. I re-read it as an adult a few years ago and was struck by how immature the book, and Robin, was. But, it is a book of growth. Read his sequel "Home is the Sailor" to continue his journey into manhood and his spiritual quest.
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Summary: A Boy and his Boat
Review: I read DOVE in 1973, shortly after it was published, and I will eternally thank Robin Lee Graham for introducing me to the sailing life! As a boy not much younger than Graham himself I was captivated by his story, by his daring in taking a 24-foot sloop across trackless oceans, by his exotic ports of call, and by the romance which fueled his ambition. Robin Lee Graham was like a lot of baby boomers, but when he dropped out at age 16, he dropped into exotic places like Fanning Island, Papeetee, and the Indian Ocean. More travelogue than sailing guide, DOVE gave it's readers glimpses of places rarely visited and virtually unknown at the time. Thirty years later in the Internet and Cellular World it's hard to picture just how far-flung Graham's travels really were. Graham sailed three-quarters of the way around the world without a 2-way radio, and without SatNav, GPS, Loran, EPIRB, or even a real life raft, in a boat barely bigger than a bedroom. He finished the trip in a slightly larger, better equipped boat. Graham was a reluctant sailor who was happiest ashore with his wife, Patti (who he met along the way in Fiji). Revisiting DOVE, I found that Graham felt overly pressured (by his father and by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, both of which were financing the trip) to complete the circumnavigation. His strongest motivation to sail on was his wife, who played global hopscotch to stay always one port of call in the future. His best reminiscences always include her. Graham closed the circle, but I had to wonder if he would not have been happier, like Moitessier, just to sail off into the sunset and find his own way.
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Summary: Solo Circumnavigation
Review: I enjoyed the book. It has inspired me to sail.
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Summary: Good book for future sailors
Review: I read this book for a class. Weve read a few books on sailing alone around the world, and I have to say, I enjoyed this one the most. It goes in depth on the loneliness of the voyage. It's not only about sailing but about the love of two people that defies time and distance, and a father who would do anything for his son. All in all, I think it is definatly a book worth reading.
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Summary: boy's will, father's way
Review: I appreciated "Dove" more for its down-to-earth approach to Robin's otherwise romanticized adventure than for the sailing content (in that respect, Moitessier's "The long way" still remains the soul sailor's bible, I guess). Robin's recurring loneliness and his father's attitude towards the trip (and, ultimately, towards his son's life) somehow took the wind of my sails as far as the magic of his story is concerned. When reading about the voyage in the National Geographic, I had the feeling he was much happier and self confident than the book actually sugests. Seems to me now that upon his arrival, and in spite of all the good memories, Robin was more like a survivor of his father's ambitions than a happy boy who pursued and fulfilled his dreams around the globe (as he corageoulsy admits, were it for his own will, the trip would have come to an end way before it did...). At any rate, the account is inspiring, the story has its own special beauty, and the message is a very positive one. Besides, it shows that if beauty is only skin deep, than a saylor's happines can more than often be tide pool deep. Good reading for any Slocum-to-be. P.S. Like many othe readers, I too am curious to know of their whereabouts these days.
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Summary: great adventure story of courage and independence
Review: Many people fantasize about a fantanstic adventure yet very few have the courage to follow their heart and actually embark on the journey. This is the story of one young man who sailed a small boat around the world, facing all of the uncertainty, risks and amazing rewards one might encounter and discover on such a trip. Great story to read to children emphasizing independence and courage.
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Summary: Dove was a great book
Review: I think that Dove by Robing Lee Grahm is a good book and sets a good example about courage and bravery. If you put your mind to it you can do anything you want and I think that this book says that.
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