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Sailing Alone Around the World: The Illustrated Edition
by Slocum, Joshua
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0760348510
- ISBN 13
- 9780760348512
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Minneapolis, MN, USA: Zenith Press / Quarto Publishing Group, 2015. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xiii, 242pp. Photo illustrated, maps, ports. Photo illustrated endpapers. Ship design figures to boards, crisp white lettering to spine. No edgewear to covers, small bumping to bottom corners.. Binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in BroDart cover. Quarto: 243 x 282mm. First printing of the illustrated Zenith Press edition, with an Introduction by Geoffrey Wolff.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045869
- Title
- Sailing Alone Around the World: The Illustrated Edition
- Author
- Slocum, Joshua
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0760348510
- ISBN 13
- 9780760348512
- Publisher
- Zenith Press / Quarto Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Date Published
- 2015
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Slocum, Joshua, -- 1844-1909. Spray (Sloop) Voyages around the world. NOISBN Pictorial, Pictorials, Essays & Travelogues, Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration / Travel / Adventure;
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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- Brodart
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- Quarto
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