Children of Cape Horn (Hardcover)

by Rosie Swale (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 242 pages
• Publisher: Walker & Company (January 1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802704654
• ISBN-13: 978-0802704658
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,541,471 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best family cruising books ever, June 17, 2001

By	William F. Stanton (Eastpoint, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This book is charming, a bold adventure with two babies aboard a 30' catamarn sailed by an unassuming couple getting their feet wet for the first time. Europe to Australia and back by way of Cape Horn. A pleasure to read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Honest, adventurous and perhaps naive sailing adventure, April 6, 1999

By	Cheryle ([e-mail]) (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Children of Cape Horn (Hardcover)

This book was written by an honest and perhaps naive young woman and mother of two babies who with her husband sailed off on a true adventure as a family. Set in the early seventies, they left Gibraltar and sailed across the Atlantic ocean, the Caribbean, the vast Pacific Ocean to Australia and back to England through the Southern Ocean and around Cape Horn. With two babies on board their 30 foot catamaran. The reader is taken along for the ride and shares their love, respect and awe of the Ocean. They may have started out perhaps a bit naive, but the reader can cetainly see how the family grows and learns together and share their adventures, joy, fears, illness, and much happiness. It is a happy book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Honest, adventurous and perhaps naive sailing adventure, April 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Children of Cape Horn (Hardcover)

This book was written by an honest and perhaps naive young woman and mother of two babies who with her husband sailed off on a true adventure as a family. Set in the early seventies, they left Gibraltar and sailed across the Atlantic ocean, the Caribbean, the vast Pacific Ocean to Australia and back to England through the Southern Ocean and around Cape Horn. With two babies on board their 30 foot catamaran. The reader is taken along for the ride and shares their love, respect and awe of the Ocean. They may have started out perhaps a bit naive, but the reader can cetainly see how the family grows and learns together and share their adventures, joy, fears, illness, and much happiness. It is a happy book.