Joshua Slocum: 8 books

2 works of Joshua Slocum First man to sail single-handedly around the world, from Nova Scotia (1844-1909) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Joshua Slocum. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Sailing Alone Around The World - Voyage of the Liberdade

Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...

Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer (1844-1909) This ebook presents «Voyage of the Liberdade», from Joshua Slocum. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- GREETING -03- VOYAGE OF THE LIBERDADE

As the first person to ever complete a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, Joshua Slocum recounts his pioneering feat in Sailing Alone Around the World (1899), an engaging memoir of his adventures aboard the sloop Spray . An immediate success, the book has inspired countless later travelers....

Il diario di navigazione più letto e famoso, uno dei grandi classici della letteratura di viaggio, in una nuova traduzione e con un’introduzione inedita di Björn Larsson. Lo straordinario racconto dell’impresa di Joshua Slocum a bordo dello “Spray”: tre anni intorno al mondo, tra il 1895 e il 1898, per compiere la prima circumnavigazione del globo a vela e in solitario.

La sera del 24 aprile 1895 Slocum salpa con lo Spray da Boston. Il suo obiettivo è compiere una circumnavigazione del globo in totale solitudine. Tre anni, due mesi e due giorni dopo, il 27 giugno del 1898, dopo una traversata di circa 46.000 miglia, Slocum getta nuovamente l’ancora nel porto di...

Great mariner's thrilling, first-hand account of the wreck of his ship off the coast of South America, the 35-foot "brave little craft" he built from the wreckage, and its remarkable, danger-fraught voyage home. A 19th-century maritime classic brimming with courage, ingenuity, and daring.