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PINKNEY, WILLIAM; COSBY, BILL (INTRODUCTION). As Long As It Takes: Meeting The Challenge.
Bunker Hill Publishing, Piermont: 2006. 1593730462 / 9781593730468 First Edition (Unstated). h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
Captain William "Bill" Pinkney tells us the story that as a young boy growing up in the part of Chicago called "Bronzeville," he was made aware of a depressing statistic: "Before I turn 21, the chances were that I would be on drugs, in jail, or dead from crimes of violence. That was because I was a black male, educated in the public school system, raised partially on welfare, and brought up by a divorced woman." Pinkney beat the odds because "my mother never believed it - and neither did I. I was taught, and convinced, that I could becomewhatever I wanted to be if I was willing to work for it." On June 9, 1992, Captain Pinkney sailed his boat, Commitment, into Boston Harbor after completing a twenty-two month solo-circumnavigation of the globe. As the first Afican-American to sail alone via Cape Horn through the dangerous Southern Ocean, the journey was even mmore special because of the message he set out to send to children about their dreams, education, and, above all, commmitment. During his adventure on the high seas - from Boston to Bermuda, Brazil, South Africa, Tasmania, around Cape Horn, Uruguay, and back to Boston - Pinkney communicated with students in Boston and Chicago almost daily via, radio, home video dispatches, and position dispatches, and position locations bby satellite. His communiques with students not only taught them sailing basics, geometry, biology, ecology, and geography, but also presented them with valuable life lessons of dedication, perseverance, and survival.
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