I highly recommend Stowaway as we used it this year and found it much more engaging than the other book. In fact, you can read my earlier comments by clicking here. Yes, they start off along the eastern coast of South America, around Cape Horn, then on toward “New Zeeland” and the Australian continent.
Although, I should mention, you’ll have to look up where they are on a map and then do the appropriate map drills or other activities as you go along. Be sure to read the author’s note at the end of the book regarding the latitudes and longitudes recorded in the diary entries. They differ slightly from the notations we use today, but she tells you where and how you’ll need to adjust them to find out exactly where they are sailing on any given day. It was fun to look up some of their locations on maps, and we also used an online locator that allows you to put in latitude/longitude and then shows you where that is.
Sue
