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Book Synopsis The Hard Way Around by : Geoffrey Wolff
Download or read book The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Final Rights written by Joshua Slocum and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson are the two most prominent advocates of consumer rights in dealing with the death industry. Here they combine efforts to inform consumers of their rights and propose long-needed reforms. Slocum is executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national nonprofit with over 90 local affiliates nationwide. Carlson is executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization, which works with the industry to try to improve ethical standards. In addition to nationwide issues, the book covers state-by-state information needed by anybody who wishes to take charge of funeral arrangements for a loved one, with or without the help of a funeral director. More information about the book and related issues can be found at www.finalrights.org .
Book Synopsis Capt. Joshua Slocum by : Victor Slocum
Download or read book Capt. Joshua Slocum written by Victor Slocum and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Slocum is the son of Captain Joshua Slocum.
Book Synopsis Voyage of the Liberdade by : Joshua Slocum
Download or read book Voyage of the Liberdade written by Joshua Slocum and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alone at Sea written by Ann Spencer and published by Buffalo, N.Y. ; [Willowdale, Ont.] : Firefly Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895, Nova Scotia-born Joshua Slocum embarked on a three-year 46,000-mile solo circumnavigation of the globe, aboard a refitted oyster sloop. Sailing through pirate-infested waters, confronting the sea at its most cruel, surviving beachings and wrestling with the demons of solitude, Joshua Slocum achieved a voyage that will forever rank among the epic feats of seamanship.
Book Synopsis Sailing Alone Around the World by : Joshua Slocum
Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Voyages of Joshua Slocum by : Joshua Slocum
Download or read book The Voyages of Joshua Slocum written by Joshua Slocum and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive edition of all of Captain Joshua Slocum's writings is now being reissued in time for the 100th anniversary of Slocum's epic singlehanded voyage.
Download or read book Joshua Slocum written by Quentin Casey and published by Stories of Our Past. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest title in the Stories of our Past series tells the tale of the Brier Island boy who went to sea at sixteen and never looked back. The first person to circumnavigate the globe alone, Captain Joshua Slocum has remained a nautical icon since the publication of Sailing Alone Around the World in 1900. In Joshua Slocum, journalist Quentin Casey takes readers from the treasured sea captain's humble upbringing on Westport, Brier Island, through his lifelong quest for adventure on the sea. Follow Slocum's career from ordinary seaman to master of celestial navigation, and experience a rare look into his personal life, trouble on and off the sea, and his mysterious disappearance. Includes sidebar features on little-known Slocum facts and over 60 images, including photographs, maps, and illustrations.
Author :Stan Grayson Publisher :Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing ISBN 13 :0884485501 Total Pages :391 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (844 download)
Book Synopsis A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World by : Stan Grayson
Download or read book A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World written by Stan Grayson and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of years of research, A Man for All Oceans is the most comprehensive biography of Slocum ever published, and the first written by a small-boat sailor. Author/historian Grayson uncovered previously unknown original source materials to shed new light on one of history’s greatest sailors while answering questions that have been asked ever since the publication of Sailing Alone. In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocum’s book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Here is the real story of Slocum’s Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocum’s uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailor’s perspective to Slocum’s solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreau’s Walden and shows that Slocum’s simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured today’s emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocum’s world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.
Book Synopsis The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World by : Joshua Slocum
Download or read book The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World by : Joshua Slocum
Download or read book Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Slocum was the first man to circumnavigate the world single-handed. This classic account of his voyage remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time, from encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, to tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish.
Book Synopsis Sailing Around the World by : Guy Bernardin
Download or read book Sailing Around the World written by Guy Bernardin and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French writer and sailor Guy Bernardin has completed in the OSTAR and the BOC Challenge races.
Book Synopsis Great Voyages in Small Boats by : Vito Dumas
Download or read book Great Voyages in Small Boats written by Vito Dumas and published by Clinton Corners, N.Y. : J. de Graff. This book was released on 1976 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Violin Conspiracy by : Brendan Slocumb
Download or read book The Violin Conspiracy written by Brendan Slocumb and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. “I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about—in this case, classical music.” —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. As the competition approaches, Ray must not only reclaim his precious violin, but prove to himself—and the world—that no matter the outcome, there has always been a truly great musician within him.
Book Synopsis The Illustrated Sailing Alone Around the World by : Joshua Slocum
Download or read book The Illustrated Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by SeaWolf Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray.
Download or read book Around the World written by Matt Phelan and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenged with circling the world solo at the end of the 19th century, three very different adventurers--avid bicyclist Thomas Stevens, fearless reporter Nellie Bly and retired sea captain Joshua Slocum--embark on epic journeys. By a Scott O'Dell Award-winning graphic novelist.
Download or read book Lonely Voyagers written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These collages are assembled from images taken from "La Nature", a 19th century French magazine. Simon Blake meticulously dissects the illustrations from this magazine with carbon scissors and surgical scalpels. He then pastes these pieces together to form new, original, imaginative pictures, to which Wonk has added intriguing, humorous captions."Word and image combine seamlessly to bring to life a fantastic world. An alluring journey. A beautiful sense of bewilderment."- David Gordon Green
