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Sailing Alone Around The World
by Slocum, Joshua
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 190961260X
- ISBN 13
- 9781909612600
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Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd, 2016. Paperback. New. reissue edition. 164 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches.
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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- Revaluation Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Sailing Alone Around The World
- Author
- Slocum, Joshua
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 190961260X
- ISBN 13
- 9781909612600
- Publisher
- John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
- Date Published
- 2016
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