[PDF] Sailing Alone Around The World eBook

Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307745457

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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
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0713679352

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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.
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574092758

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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
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0375755195

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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 : Tania Aebi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1476711607

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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…

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1101221607

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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Naomi James
Publisher : Penguin Adult HC/TR
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A first-hand narrative of her epic sea voyage by the first woman to sail alone around the world.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : SeaWolf Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781950435951

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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 : Robin Lee Graham
Publisher : Goldencraft
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 1973-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307665102

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Recounts the voyage of a California sixteen-year-old who spent nearly five years sailing alone around the world.