Sailing Alone Around the World

Slocum, Joshua

ISBN 10: 0967482607 / ISBN 13: 9780967482606

Editore: Regatta Pr Ltd, IthacaNY, 2000

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NO FINER COPY EXISTS. // NEW BOOK and DJ, both in GIFT-quality MINT condition. Issued without Dustjacket, in library binding. // The seagoing classic in superior condition. Codice articolo 105207

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Titolo: Sailing Alone Around the World

Casa editrice: Regatta Pr Ltd, IthacaNY

Data di pubblicazione: 2000

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: New

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dj as Issued

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Riassunto:

The most detailed and celebrated autobiographical account of a solo circumnavigation of the globe in the age of sail. Slocum, a naturalized American, designed, built, provisioned, and skippered his small sloop, the Spray, around the world in 1895-1898. The book chronicles every facet of the voyage from technical specifics of the ship and supplies to lively accounts of the people and places Slocum visited along his 46,000-mile journey. Sailing Alone was, in its own time, a very popular book, and it remains so today, having been reprinted many times throughout the 20th century. However, this is the first high-quality facsimile reproduction to date, faithfully reproducing the original text, art, and striking cover of the rare first edition.

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Joshua Slocum ( 1844-1909) was a Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone Around the World. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray.