Then We Sailed Away

by Marie Christine Ridgway (Author), Marie Christine Ridgway (Author), John Ridgway (Author), Rebecca Ridgway (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $4.48

  The Ridgeway family embarked on an adventure to fulfil a dream. Leaving the School of Adventure they run in a remote corner of north-west Scotland, they launched their 57ft ketch and travelled across the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, returning via Antarctica, in a bid to get away from it all.

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $4.48

  In October 1993 the Ridgways closed their school of adventure and left their croft on the west coast of Scotland to embark on an 18-month adventure voyage to the Pacific and back in their yacht, the English Rose VI . This is the story of one family's dream to get away from it all . It tells how John Ridgway, his wife Marie Christine, their daughter Rebecca and their adopted Quechua Indian daughter Elizabeth decided to weather violent storms, tempestuous arguments and everyday domestic life against a backdrop of not-so-ordinary locations: an Atlantic crossing; the Caribbean; the Panama Canal; the South Sea Islands; South America (including a trip to Peru where Elizabeth has a moving reunion with her family); and Antactica.