About the book: 1972 / "Once upon a time there was a Boy. Very ordinary. Light-eyed and slightly freckled. He lived in a new city, in a new house and went to a new school. In the Boy’s room there was a blue Map of All Seas and Oceans hanging on the wall. And on the desk, next to a plastic cup for pencils, stood a boat made of brown pine bark, with paper sails…»