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  During this time Matt received an invitation from an aunt in law who lives in San Diego USA to come and live with her. Although he didn’t want to go he decided to give it a try .

  

 There he met a girl named Tracey who was an animal rights activist . After leading a march through town to protest for dolphins she was  nabbed by the police, fined and told to live peacefully for a year. So she decided to go to La Scammon Mexico, for the whale watch and asked Matt to go with her. Because Petra had told Matt that she would be there around about that season, Matt decided to go and see her.

 They travelled in Tracey’s bike she called Fly and they encountered many hardships  while travelling along Baja Peninsular. In the end they parted to go their own way , Matt to Petra’s father’s house and Tracey with her old boyfriend whom she met again at a seaport.

      

  In short they, Matt, Petra and Skip who was sent by the captain to locate Matt whom he thought was lost , had a reunion at Petra’s father’s house. In fact Petra was the captain’s granddaughter but the father  hadn’t forgiven the old man for disowning his daughter when she ran away with him, a poor unknown artist.

   

  But now the captain’s end was near and Petra decided to go and see the captain . So they all went back to England to see the captain. The lonely captain’s wish was fulfilled when he saw his granddaughter even if he cannot see his daughter. He offered both Petra and Matt his fortune but they declined. Petra accepted his offer to fund a marine biology research center , where Matt who wanted to be a marine biologist like Petra could work later.

   

   The captain insisted they take him to their old place where he died peacefully amid the sound of music of the music night   they hold especially for him.

      In the last part of the book Mathew met with Flite again .  But he had to let it go back to it’s own school and to the sea where  they belong.

    

 I cannot describe the story in detail because it will make my blog so long . But I want to add that there are many scenes that tell us about the plight and dangers the sea animals are facing.

   

   I like this book very much and I also wish you like it too.    

      

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  I will dub my Blog No 1 which is about The Silk  Road  No 3 in my” Books I translated” series. So this blog is  about Dolphin’s Sunrise and it will be No 4 in this series.

    

It is written by Elizabeth Webster . I read it from the Readers Digest Condensed Book . So it is not an original , but a condensed one.

   

  The main theme of the book is animal rights (whales and dolphins ) . Our world now has become an overpopulated one and food to feed all  mouths is one problem. So men is squeezing all they can from land and sea to get food to feed all mankind. From seas and oceans men uses all kinds of vessels, machineries, and nets to catch all kinds of sea animals and even though there are rules concerning  fishing , sometimes they are violated to suit the greediness of human being.So many sea species are in danger of being extinct and some had already been extinct forever. 

   

   The hero of this book is Mathew a young boy of 15/16 . He became an orphan when fire broke out in his flat killing his mother . During this incident Matt rescued 4 small children whose parents were  at work but broke a leg and got some burns. The children’s parents were indebted to Mathew and they took him to Cornwall , a seaside place where they  were going to stay free in a caravan.

    

Mathew was a bright boy who can play the guitar well especially classics and also a whiz in computer. In Cornwall he met Skip the aqua club runner and his girl friend Petra who sometimes come to visit. He also met a lonely old man ,Captain Verney St George who owns a shipping empire and had a mysterious past.  While swimming in the sea he also met and became friends with a dolphin whom he named Flite. Matt and Flite became very much attached to each other.

     

When winter came Madge and her family and many people went back to their home. The captain also went south where there is sunshine and warmth. Before he went  Matt worked the computer for the captain at his request and they came to like each other very much.

to be continued……..