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Sailing Alone Around The World by Slocum Joshua, Tim Flannery
Category: Sports and Hobbies
It remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Slocum writes of dangers and delights in encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish. In 1877, eighteen years before Slocum weighed anchor on his 74,00 ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Category: Biography and Memoir
Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. It remains one of the major feats of single-handed voyaging, and has since been the inspiration for the many who have gone to sea in small boats. Starting from B ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Joshsua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of 14 and for the next 35 years he sailed the world holding every shipboard rank. When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. N ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum; Geoffrey Wolff
Category: Technology and Transport
The first illustrated edition of the classic sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum, the first man to circumnavigate the globe alone Sailing Alone Around the World is Joshua Slocum's memoir about sailing alone around the world aboard his sloop, Spray. The book was an immediate success when it was first publi ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Category: Travel | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. Not one for retiring to earthy pastures, Slocum rebuilt a hundred-year old sloop and set off from Boston in 1895 on the first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. F ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Adlard Coles Maritime Classics Ser.
It remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Slocum writes of dangers and delights in encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish. In 1877, eighteen years before Slocum weighed anchor on his 74,00 ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Slocum Joshua
Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
2011 Reprint of 1900 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Profusely illustrated. Nova Scotia born, with family roots in New England, Captain Slocum commanded some of the finest tall ships that ever sailed the seas. On April 24, 1895, at the a ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Category: Travel
Classic of sea adventure conveys all the excitement of being the first man to sail around the world, alone, in small boat. Pirates, perils, witty observations, stories. 67 illustrations. "a literary gem, adroitly and engagingly written." - National Fisherman.
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