Sailing Alone around the World
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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-101-22160-0
- EAN: 9781101221600
- Produktnummer: 17992576
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'794 KB
Über den Autor
Thomas Philbrick is professor emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
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