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At seven years old, Suzanne Heywood was living the life of a normal schoolgirl. She had friends, she had a family and she was living in England with her younger brother Jonathan.
Yet, her parents longed for a different life.
Promising the children a three-year trip, Suzanne and Jonathan were whisked away onto the family's yacht by their Captain Cook-obsessed parents.
They planned to sail during that time, circumnavigating the world and following Cook's path, per news.com.au.
Their journey would take them from the southern coast of the UK past Tenerife, Cape Town, New Zealand and Hawaii, before ending up in the Bering Strait which separates America and Russia.
The journey was a dangerous one, fraught with notorious weather and treacherous capes, but the Cook family (that was their last name, coincidentally), continued on the parents' whim.
What had started out as a three-year journey became a 10-year struggle, during which time both children were forced to live in the isolation of the boat.
Image: Instagram/suzanneheyward1