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Sailing Alone Around the World
by Slocum, Joshua
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- very good-
- ISBN 10
- 0486203263
- ISBN 13
- 9780486203263
- Seller
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Vashon, Washington, United States
Item Price
£2.94£2.35
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About This Item
Mineola, NY, U.S.A.: Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1956. Reprint. Trade Paperback. very good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light toning to extremities, name/address to blank preliminary page.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Vashon Island Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0829290
- Title
- Sailing Alone Around the World
- Author
- Slocum, Joshua
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - very good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0486203263
- ISBN 13
- 9780486203263
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- Mineola, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- SAILING SLOCUM JOSHUA B 1844 SPRAY SLOOP VOYAGES AROUND WORLD SPORTS RECREATION TRAVEL ESSAYS TRAVELOGUES
Terms of Sale
Vashon Island Books
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About the Seller
Vashon Island Books
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Vashon, Washington
About Vashon Island Books
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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