Boat Kid How I Survived Swimming with Sharks, Being Homeschooled, and Growing up on a Sailboat

Name: Boat Kid How I Survived Swimming with Sharks, Being Homeschooled, and Growing up on a Sailboat
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ISBN: 9780983825265

ISBN-10: 0983825262

ISBN-13: 9780983825265

Edition: 2013

Authors: Melanie Neale

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Literary Nonfiction. BOAT KID is the engaging memoir of what it's like to grow up aboard a sailboat. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Melanie's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the US East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. Melanie and her sister were homeschooled, the family fished for dinner and made their own bread, but her parents were far from hippie dropouts. Despite their unique lifestyle, her parents were determined to raise proper young ladies while surrounded by sea-gypsies, mystics, nudists, boat bums, sharks, and smugglers. And the cruising life was not all fun in the sun. The family had to work hard to pay for their way of life. They dodged…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Beating Windward Press
Publication date: 2/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English