DoveIn 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in a 24-foot sloop. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill this bestselling book, Dove. |
Contents
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Loneliness and Landfalls | 19 |
Where Earth Day Begins | 41 |
Love and Blue Lagoons | 55 |
Battlefields and Love Letters | 69 |
The Hobo Makes It | 87 |
Drumbeats and Bridal Suite | 103 |
The Third Quarter | 125 |
Bigger Wings and Baby Talk | 139 |
Creatures That Hath Life | 155 |
Home Is the Sailor | 167 |
Child of the Isles | 183 |
Home from the Hill | 193 |
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