Class 11 English Core Hornbill PROSE Chapter - 2. "We're Not Afraid to Die...if We Can All Be Together"

Class 11 English Core Hornbill PROSE Chapter - 2. "We're Not Afraid to Die...if We Can All Be Together"
Class 11 English Core Hornbill PROSE Chapter - 2. "We're Not Afraid to Die...if We Can All Be Together"
प्रश्न बैंक - सह - उत्तर पुस्तक (Question Bank-Cum-Answer Book) Class 11 English Core  Hornbill PROSE  Chapter - 2. "We're Not Afraid to Die...if We Can All Be Together"  -Gordon Cook and Alan East MAIN POINTS ☞ The story is a first person account of an adventurous ordeal that a family experiences. ☞ In July 1976, the narrator set sail from England. ☞ The narrator wanted to duplicate the round-the- world voyage made 200 years ago by Captain James Cook. ☞ In this voyage the narrator was accompanied by his wife Mary, daughter Suzanne and son Jonathan. ☞ Their boat 'Wavewalker' was specially designed for this purpose and tested for the roughest weather. ☞ The first leg of the 1,05,000 kilometres journey passed pleasantly. ☞ Two crewmen American Larry Vigil and Swiss Herb Seigler joined to help them tackle one of the world's roughest seas, the southern Indian ocean. ☞ On the second day out of Cape Town they encountered strong gales. ☞ The weather was quite hostile on Christmas…