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Sailing Alone Around The World
by Slocum, Joshua
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1420956353
- ISBN 13
- 9781420956351
- Seller
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Shell Lake, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Digireads.Com Publishing. Very Good+. 2017. Paperback. 1420956353 . 10 oz.; 165 pages; VG++ Unread PB owner's name first end page o/w like new. First published in 1900, “Sailing Alone Around the World” is the detailed account of how Joshua Slocum would become the first person to circumnavigate the globe by himself. Aboard a sloop named the ‘Spray’, which Slocum himself rebuilt and refitted, he would depart from Boston on April, 24th, 1895 on this remarkable journey. Over the course of the next three years the boat would take him to Gloucester, Nova Scotia, Azores, Gibraltar, Morocco, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Maldonado, Montevideo, through the Strait of Magellan, through the Cockburn Channel, Port Angosto, Juan Fernandez, Marquesas, Samoa, Fiji, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Cooktown, Christmas Island, Keeling Cocos, Rodrigues, Mauritius, Durban, Cape Town, Transvaal, St Helena, Ascension Island, Devil’s Island, Trinidad, Grenada, Newport, and finally back to Fairhaven in Massachusetts. .
Synopsis
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly. Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six-foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world’s great circumnavigators – Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them all: his three-year solo voyage of more than 46,000 miles remains unmatched in maritime history for its courage, skill, and determination. Sailing Alone around the World recounts Slocum’s wonderful adventures: hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Tierra del Fuego; raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs; flying fish for breakfast in the Pacific; and a hilarious visit with fellow explorer Henry Stanley in South Africa. A century later, Slocum’s incomparable book endures as one of the greatest narratives of adventure ever written.
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- Bookseller
- Mistymornin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29312
- Title
- Sailing Alone Around The World
- Author
- Slocum, Joshua
- Illustrator
- Fogarty, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1420956353
- ISBN 13
- 9781420956351
- Publisher
- Digireads.Com Publishing
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- 1420956353
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs / Other;
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