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Sailing Alone Around the World: And, Voyage of the Liberdade
by Joshua Slocum
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. Leans vaguely. The contents compl
- ISBN 10
- 0246110457
- ISBN 13
- 9780246110459
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Toronto, Sydney & New York: Granada, 1976. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. Leans vaguely. The contents complete, clean and tight.. Hardback in dust wrapper (pale blue boards with dark blue titling to the spine) Physically 7½” x 5” (0.8 kg); (xvi) 384pp; Preface by Arthur Ransome; ISBN: 0-2461-1045-7 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199937|| Condition:
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
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199937
- Title
- Sailing Alone Around the World: And, Voyage of the Liberdade
- Author
- Joshua Slocum
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. Leans vaguely. The contents compl
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0246110457
- ISBN 13
- 9780246110459
- Publisher
- London, Toronto, Sydney & New York: Granada
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- sloop spray, ship liberdade, ship spray, ship liberdale, world voyages, yachts, yachting, voyages round world, round world yachts, world circumnavigation yachts, books by joshua slocum, arthur ransome, 0-229-98677-3
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BookLovers of Bath
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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