Sailing Alone Around The World
by Slocum, Joshua
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0393032779
- ISBN 13
- 9780393032772
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Hardcover. 1984. Illustrated Ed. 4to 157pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations. Brief, neat ink gift inscription on front endpaper. DJ price clipped and front panel top edge lightly worn . This edition of Sailing Alone Around the World is beautifully illustrated with 42 brilliant drawings by acclaimed marine artist James E. Mitchell .
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
- Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031078
- Title
- Sailing Alone Around The World
- Author
- Slocum, Joshua
- Illustrator
- Illus. by James E. Mitchell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good DJ
- Edition
- Illustrated Ed
- ISBN 10
- 0393032779
- ISBN 13
- 9780393032772
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Voyages
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Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2002
Morganton, North Carolina
About Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
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