Salt in the hair
Salt in the Hair (English original title: "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.") Is a travel story by the American author AVI (pseudonym for Edward I. Wortis ). It describes a young girl's voyage on a ship in 1832 and the conflict between the sailors and the captain. The book was first published in German in 1992 by Carlsen (translated by Josef Pesch) and has been reprinted several times since then.
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13-year-old Charlotte Doyle is traveling back to her American home in Providence in Rhode Island on a ship from England, where her family had temporarily moved .
The family has already traveled back to America without Charlotte because she was only due to finish the school year at a school for senior daughters. Charlotte has to embark on the journey alone on a ship belonging to her father's company. Two other families with children of Charlotte's age were supposed to come along, but they didn't show up at the port.
On the agreed date, Charlotte is picked up at the port by a business partner of her father. He should accompany her to the ship, the Seahawk . When he tells her something about the ship and mentions the captain's name, the porter disappears. Another porter turns around wordlessly after seeing the Seahawk .
A seaman on board warns her not to travel with the Seahawk , but Charlotte fails to persuade anyone to transfer her to another ship or send her back to the headmistress of her school. The ship's cook then gives Charlotte a knife for any necessary defense and offers Charlotte his friendship, which she refuses for social reasons.
At sea, Charlotte finally meets Captain Jaggery. She has great respect for him and does not want to believe the stories about his cruelty, even though she sees Jaggery mocking and taking advantage of his crew. After a sailor is killed through her fault, she takes the side of the crew and even becomes part of the crew after a test of courage.
The novel tells the young protagonist's journey in the form of a diary.
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- Salt in the Hair, 1992, Carlsen , ISBN 3-551-25306-4
- Salt in the hair, 1995, dtv , ISBN 978-3423703567
- Salt in the Hair, 1998, Carlsen , ISBN 978-3551580337
- Salt in Your Hair, March 1998, Carlsen ISBN 978-3551253064
- Salt in the hair, 2000, dtv, ISBN 978-3423085434
- Salt in Your Hair, June 2006, Carlsen, ISBN 978-3551355607
- Salt in Your Hair, February 2007, Carlsen, ISBN 978-3551354747