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Indigo Blue reads like a contemporary novel, but as events unfold there is no doubt it fits into the magical realism genre. When Alex is forced to move to the tiny coastal town of Boreen Point when her father moves oversea, she expects boredom. The movie is based on the real-life sailor Jessica Watson, who became the youngest sailor to complete a solo, unassisted global circumnavigation between October 2009 and May 2010. The documentary, titled 210 Days: Around the World with Jessica Watson, was released on ONEHD in 2010.Apart from taking sailing lessons with her three siblings, she also lived with her family aboard a 16-meter cabin cruiser for five years. As they grow closer and develop romantic feelings for one another, Alex makes a confronting discovery about Sam, who then shares a secret about his life which makes it impossible for a romance to develop between them. While at first I was shocked and a little skeptical, the magical aspects of this book really work, adding to the creativity and action of the story.

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Netflix’s ‘ True Spirit‘ is an adventure drama biopic that follows teenage sailor Jesse Watson’s journey around the globe as she attempts to set a world record at 16. There's also very little interaction with them, with the focus being on how much she's thinking about Sam (it's a lot). I've debated between giving it 2 or 3 stars, but I know the target age range (I would say 11-14) would enjoy it more than I did, so I settled on 3. Born on May 18, 1993, in Gold Coast, Australia, Jessica Watson developed a passion for exploration and adventure at a young age. Priscilla Presley breaks down in tears as she says late daughter Lisa Marie was 'suicidal' months before her.Wij, Yahoo, maken deel uit van de Yahoo-groep van merken De sites en apps die wij bezitten en exploiteren, waaronder Yahoo en AOL, en onze digitale advertentiedienst Yahoo Advertising. Despite her father’s apprehensions, she trained hard for the next few years and officially announced her plans in 2009.

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On the personal front, Jessica faced a heartbreaking tragedy in August 2021 when her long-term partner, Cameron Dale, died from a sudden stroke.

This includes ‘True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took on the World,’ which details her global circumnavigation adventure, and ‘Indigo Blue,’ an adventure fiction novel for young adults. Before her global journey, Jessica told the Los Angeles Times why she decided to take on such an enormous challenge. Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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Overcoming early struggles with dyslexia, Jessica became a storyteller, firstly on her popular blog and then in her bestselling, internationally published book True Spirit. Alex feels a little lost when she moves to a new town at the beginning of year 12, but she is soon kept busy working on her new boat. She then crossed back over the equator and sailed southeastward far into the freezing southern waters to round South America's infamous Cape Horn, where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet. The now-27-year-old management consultant spent a total of 210 days - or close to seven months - alone when she circumnavigated the globe on a boat, using all sorts of coping mechanisms to get through her day-to-day life.The first time was in a twin-engine plane shortly after she rounded Cape Horn (pictured below) in January 2010. I found it to be a very fast read for the first half or so, but then it felt a bit overlong in the middle. Alex feels like a fish out of water in her new hometown – the sleepy little lakeside village of Boreen Point where she is reluctantly sent to live with her slightly eccentric aunt for her final year of high school. From there, she sailed northeastward through the higher latitudes and round the horn of Africa before reentering the unforgiving Southern Ocean as she made her way back into Australian waters, traveling a total of 24,285 nautical miles. Heidi Klum reveals behind-the-scenes look of THAT Peacock Halloween costume (which took SIX HOURS to complete!