"A nice illustrated edition honoring the 125th anniversary of Joshua Slocum's voyage around the world.Use Amazon's Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. Our version has:A cover based on the first edition dust jacket.66 original illustrations.The complete, unabridged text.Appendix with plans of the sloop Spray.Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circu ..."
"The most detailed and celebrated autobiographical account of a solo circumnavigation of the globe in the age of sail. Slocum, a naturalized American, designed, built, provisioned, and skippered his small sloop, the Spray, around the world in 1895-1898. The book chronicles every facet of the voyage from technical specifics of the ship and supplies to lively accounts of the people and places Slocum visited along his 46,000-mile journey. S ..."
""The classic of its kind." —Travel World"One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure." —Sports Illustrated"The finest single-handed adventure story yet written." —SeafarerChallenged by an expert who said it couldn't be done, Joshua Slocum, an indomitable New England sea captain, set out in April of 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. 46,000 miles and a little over 3 years later, the proof was ..."
"In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant sent O.O. Howard, widely known as the "Christian general", as an ambassador of peace to the western Indian tribes. Famous Indians Chiefs I Have Known is Howard's account of his journey. He tells of his peace agreement with the great Apache chief Cochise; describes his pursuit of Joseph and the surrender of the Nez Perce chief, who became his friend; and provides a poignant glimpse of the defeated Apac ..."
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Indian Hero Tales Wonder Stories of the First Americans by John Hubert Cornyn, GeorgeVarian Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 2013 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-4940-7061-8, ISBN: 1-4940-7061-8
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"“Few books send forth such a tangy breeze of salt air.” --Oceanography As the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone, Captain Joshua Slocum is celebrated as the “patron saint of small-boat voyagers, navigators, and adventurers all over the world” (Joshua Slocum Society), and heralded as the penultimate example of independent marine navigation at a time when the invention of steam had nearly put an end to the Golden Age of Sail ..."
"First published in 1900, “Sailing Alone Around the World” is the detailed account of how Joshua Slocum would become the first person to circumnavigate the globe by himself. Aboard a sloop named the ‘Spray’, which Slocum himself rebuilt and refitted, he would depart from Boston on April, 24th, 1895 on this remarkable journey. Over the course of the next three years the boat would take him to Gloucester, Nova Scotia, Azores, Gibraltar, Mo ..."
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A Frigate s Namesake (Hardback) by GeorgeVarian Hardcover, Published 2015 by Andesite Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-298-77948-9, ISBN: 1-298-77948-0