title: Dare the Wind: The Record-breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud
author: Tracey Fern
description: Gr 24In the summer of 1851, the clipper Flying Cloud made the journey from New York City to San Francisco in a record-breaking 89 days and 21 hours despite several setbacks and dangers along the way. Much of the credit for that voyage goes to Ellen Prentiss Creesy, the ship's navigator. Based on the true story of that voyage, this book expertly describes Prentiss's early life, her love for the sea and the science of navigation, her marriage to Captain Perkins Creesy, and their remarkable accomplishment. Readers will find this fictionalized account gripping and inspiring. McCully's excellent watercolor illustrations include a number of period details and add a sense of movement and drama to the already exciting text. An author's note gives the factual background for the story, and a brief glossary serves to familiarize readers with nautical terms. This is a well-executed narrative on a topic that has not received much coverage since Armstrong Sperry's 1936 Newbery Honor book, All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud (Winston, 1935).Misti Tidman, Licking County Library, Newark, OH
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  # PROLOGUE
  
  
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  I dreamed of that night a hundred times. The gates of Windhall thrown open to
  greet a procession of ghostly cars, dazzling apparitions gliding up the drive.
  The garden, filled with deadly flowers and orange blossoms, the night sky a
  bowl of stars. And Windhall itself, blazing with light, all the windows thrown
  open to the summer air.
  
  
  Most of all, I dreamed of Eleanor. She arrived late to the party that night,
  hours after the band had switched from lively swing to something sweet and
  melancholy. There wouldn’t be very many details of that night that the papers
  missed, since the host was one of the most famous people in Hollywood.
  Reporters would obsess over the attire, the music, the guest list. I had seen
  hundreds of pictures of the attendees, the giddy starl