Sailing Alone Around The World

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780713679359

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Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. This work offers Slocum's account of his epic voyage. It is intended for admirers of his legendary achievement.

Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307745453

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The Hard Way Around by Geoffrey Wolff Pdf

In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574092752

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The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Joshua Slocum¿s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context that will make Slocum¿s masterpiece more accessible to today¿s readers¿sailors and landlubbers alike.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : UVA:X001244313

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Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum Pdf

An account of author's trading voyage to South America in his bark "Aquidneck", of her loss leaving harbor in Brazil, of author's building there of the "Liberdade", a 35 foot junk rigged vessel, and of sailing her back to the United States.

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375755194

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Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins Pdf

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.

Author : Tania Aebi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781476711607

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Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi Pdf

What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love. Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat, she’d have to sail around the world—alone. She chose the boat, and for the next two and a half years and 27,000 miles, it was her home. With only her cat as companion, she discovered the wondrous beauties of the Great Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the Red Sea. She suffered through a terrifying collision with a tanker in the Mediterranean and a lightning storm off the coast of Gibraltar. And, ultimately, what began with the sheer desire for adventure turned into a spiritual quest as Tania came to terms with her troubled family life, fell in love for the first time, and—most of all—confronted her own needs, desires, dreams, and goals…

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : SeaWolf Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1950435954

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The Illustrated Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray.

Author : J. J. Isler,Peter Isler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781118052914

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Sailing For Dummies by J. J. Isler,Peter Isler Pdf

Interested in learning to sail but feel like you’re navigating in murky waters? Sailing for Dummies, Second Edition introduces the basics of sailing, looks at the different types of sailboats and their basic parts, and teaches you everything you need to know before you leave the dock. In Sailing for Dummies, Second Edition, two U.S. sailing champions show you how to: Find and choose a sailing school Use life jackets correctly Tie ten nautical knots Handle sailing emergencies (such as capsizing and rescuing a man overboard) Launch your boat from a trailer, ramp, or beach Get your boat from point A to point B (and back again) Predict and respond to water and wind conditions Read charts, plot your course, use a compass, and find your position at sea Sailing for Dummies shows you that getting out on the water is easier than you think. The authors keep the sailor-speak to a minimum where possible, but give you a grasp of the terminology you need to safely and effectively communicate with your crew. A textbook, user’s manual, and reference all in one, this book takes the intimidation out of sailing and gives you the skills and confidence you need to get your feet wet and become the sailing pro you’ve always wanted to be. Anchors away!

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003853715

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Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Author : Peter Nichols
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Single-handed sailing
ISBN : 1846684439

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Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols Pdf

Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th AnniversaryIt lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didn't even know how to sail. They had more in common with Captain Cook or Ferdinand Magellan than with the high-tech, extreme sailors of today, a mere forty years later. It was not the sea or the weather that determined the nature of their voyages but the men they were, and they were as different from one another as Scott from Amundsen. Only one of the nine crossed the finishing line after ten months at sea. The rest encountered despair, sublimity, madness and even death.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780834825208

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Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Full of astounding adventures, Sailing Alone around the World is the true story of the first man ever to circle the globe alone entirely by sea. In a little over three years, Captain Joshua Slocum completed the feat many experts believed couldn't be done—and he has the stories to prove it. During his historic voyage, Slocum was chased by pirates in Gibraltar, soaked by a "rain of blood" in Australia, and battered by perilous storms in the open ocean. He also met many famous—and infamous—people along the way, from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, to Black Pedro, "the worst murderer in Tierra del Fuego." This absorbing tale, written with humor and poetic eloquence, was first published in 1900 and has remained in print ever since.

Author : Hal Roth
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0071778721

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How to Sail Around the World by Hal Roth Pdf

A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller After 50,000 Miles. Taking that book as its starting point, this handsome new volume incorporates the new technologies and discoveries of the last quarter century along with another 150,000 miles of experience. A compendium of mature, time-tested sea wisdom from one of the world's most respected sailing writers, How to Sail Around the World will tell the reader: How to choose and equip a sailboat for long-distance cruising, with an emphasis on simplicity and a modest budget How to plan and conduct a voyage anywhere in the world How to master the arts of navigation, anchoring, and daily life aboard in exotic places How to cope with storms at sea--the most complete and authoritative treatise on this critical topic ever published

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557099174

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Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

In 1895, at the age of 51, Captain Joshua Slocum left Boston on his sloop Spray. Three years later, after sailing single-handed 46,000 miles around the world, Slocum returned to Newport, Rhode Island. Through this, he was revered by sailors and adventurers around the world. The story of this journey is a classic tale of achievement in the face of overwhelming odds. "Walden without the training wheels." -Nathaniel Philbrick

Author : Henry Holt
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781460250181

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Around the World in Six Years by Henry Holt Pdf

At the age of 67, Henry Holt struck off on a sailing adventure that would become a six-year voyage unlike any other way of seeing the world. The people he met and the challenges he faced along the way – from bureaucratic headaches at ports, to truly frightening weather events, to isolation from his friends and family while relying on their help from afar – only strengthened his commitment to the journey. Around the World in Six Years is an account of sailing lessons and life lessons in equal measure. Dramatic, funny, and heartfelt, it is an account of an ordinary man on an extraordinary trip, and will inspire the aspiring adventurer in every reader.

Author : Robin Lee Graham,Derek Gill
Publisher : Goldencraft
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1973-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0307665100

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The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone by Robin Lee Graham,Derek Gill Pdf

Recounts the voyage of a California sixteen-year-old who spent nearly five years sailing alone around the world.