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…