The Hard Way Around
The Passages of Joshua Slocum
A masterful biographer now offers a thrilling, definitive portrait of one of history's most legendary icons of adventure.In 1860, sixteen-year-old Joshua Slocum escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Nova Scotia by signing on as an ordinary seaman to a merchant ship bound for Dublin. Despite having only a third-grade education, Slocum rose through the nautical ranks at a mercurial pace; just a decade later he was commander of his own ship. His subsequent journeys took him nearly everywhere: Liverpool, China, Japan, Cape Horn, the Dutch East Indies, Manila, Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore, San Francisco, and Australia—where he met and married his fi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-59463-1
- EAN: 9780307594631
- Produktnummer: 15739742
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'023 KB
- Abbildungen: 13 CHAPTER-OPENERS
Über den Autor
Geoffrey Wolff is the author of five works of nonfiction and six novels. In 1994 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Bath, Maine.
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