Sailing Alone Around The World

Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307745457
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0713679352
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This work offers Slocum's account of his epic voyage. It is intended for admirers of his legendary achievement.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1574092758
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Slocum¿s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context that will make Slocum¿s masterpiece more accessible to today¿s readers¿sailors and landlubbers alike.

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375755195
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the Room written by Billy Collins and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Liberdade written by Joshua Slocum and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of author's trading voyage to South America in his bark "Aquidneck", of her loss leaving harbor in Brazil, of author's building there of the "Liberdade", a 35 foot junk rigged vessel, and of sailing her back to the United States.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : SeaWolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781950435951
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by SeaWolf Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 398594380X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum - Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and In the News sidebars for historical context that will make Slocum's masterpiece more accessible to today's readers, sailors and landlubbers alike.

Author : Henry Holt
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460250184
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Around the World in Six Years written by Henry Holt and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 67, Henry Holt struck off on a sailing adventure that would become a six-year voyage unlike any other way of seeing the world. The people he met and the challenges he faced along the way – from bureaucratic headaches at ports, to truly frightening weather events, to isolation from his friends and family while relying on their help from afar – only strengthened his commitment to the journey. Around the World in Six Years is an account of sailing lessons and life lessons in equal measure. Dramatic, funny, and heartfelt, it is an account of an ordinary man on an extraordinary trip, and will inspire the aspiring adventurer in every reader.

Author : Tania Aebi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476711607
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maiden Voyage written by Tania Aebi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love. Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat, she’d have to sail around the world—alone. She chose the boat, and for the next two and a half years and 27,000 miles, it was her home. With only her cat as companion, she discovered the wondrous beauties of the Great Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the Red Sea. She suffered through a terrifying collision with a tanker in the Mediterranean and a lightning storm off the coast of Gibraltar. And, ultimately, what began with the sheer desire for adventure turned into a spiritual quest as Tania came to terms with her troubled family life, fell in love for the first time, and—most of all—confronted her own needs, desires, dreams, and goals…