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Suzanne Heywood.
Wave walker Breaking free
397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
illustrations (some colour), maps.
Contents include: The wave -- The vote -- The outsider -- Breaking free.
Summary: Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Wavewalker is the incredible true story of how the adventure of a lifetime became one child's worst nightmare - and how her determination to educate herself enabled her to escape.