Title: Sailing Alone Around the World - The First Solo Voyage Around the World
Author: Joshua Slocum
ISBN: 1857997549
Publisher: Phoenix Press, London
Edition: 2000, reissued 2003
First Published: 1900
Language: English
Binding: Softcover
Number of Pages: 234
DESCRIPTION: The author, who had lost his wife and his barque, decided to rebuild a shipwreck with his own hands and sail it single-handed around the world. He sailed out of Boston harbour on 24 April 1895 at the age of fifty-one and returned just over three years later after becomming the first person to circumnavigate the world. Illustrated with line drawings and two maps depicting the journey.
Key words: seamanship | sailor| adversity | single-handed | circumnavigation | love of the sea
Condition: Good (Description below)
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* Cover and spine fine
* Spine showing paging
* Very slight damage where a sharp object pierced the book, 4mm wide, from the cover to pp 97
* Pages yellowing due to the natural ageing process of paper
* Some glue residue on rear cover from a previous price tag
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