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At the edge of a cliff lies the wreck of a small sailboat. How did it get there? "Waves carried it up in a storm," says an old sailor. But is it possible that waves could ever get that high? There is another story -- the story of a boy and his obsessive desire to be the greatest sailor, the... read more

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  • The Old Man: A man telling the story of just how the Zephyr came to be wrecked.
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Once, while traveling along the seashore, I stopped at a small fishing village.

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  1. Chris Van Allsburg (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0395330750
Page Count: 32

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Expands and opens imaginations


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