SuitabookDare the wind
Tracey E. Fern
- Reading
- Before reading, look at a map together and trace the route via Cape Horn. Pause at the sailing challenges to discuss how they might affect a voyage.
- Themes
- Women navigating ships: Ellen Prentiss learns to navigate and later guides her husband's clipper on a record-setting voyage. The book presents this favourably.
- Worth knowing
- The voyage includes wild storms, broken masts and dangerously slow winds. These hazards may make the sailing passages tense; how vividly they are depicted is unclear.