Dolphins at Sunset: A Family Voyage Around the World

In 1985 Michael and Elizabeth Thurston, with their two small children, left Australia in their fifty-foot aluminium ketch, Drina, to sail round the World. Michael “was a ship’s master with years of experience skippering small vessels around New Guinea and the Pacific islands. Elizabeth had never made an ocean passage in a sailing boat and had to learn about sailing as she Went along. There Were also the children to care for; one was three years old and the other a toddler of only fifteen months when they began their voyage.

Dolphins at Sunset is Elizabeth Thurston’s account of their four-year family odyssey, Which took them to some of the most idyllic anchorages in the World as Well as through some violent seas. Throughout the voyage they were part of an international sailing fraternity where the qualities that count are courage, Seamanship, humour and humanity. Those qualities are well represented in this fascinating narrative, which will delight blue water sailors and armchair travelers alike.

Elizabeth Thurston was born in Melbourne. Her early childhood years were spent in Papua New Guinea, Where her family had a copra and cocoa plantation. Educated at school in Melbourne and at Melbourne University, she Worked as a book editor with Angus and Robertson in Sydney and then with The Bodley Head in London. She returned to Sydney to take up the position of Children’s Editor With Methuen Australia. In 1981 she married and moved back to Papua New Guinea. Since completing their circumnavigation, she and her husband and children have lived in Brisbane.

Author : Elizabeth Thurston

Paperback : 232 pages

SKU: P2548

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