Sailing Alone Around The World And Voyage Of The Liberdade
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A landmark work in adventure literature, Sailing Alone Around the World and Voyage of the Liberdade presents two extraordinary firsthand accounts by the legendary mariner Captain Joshua Slocum. The first and most celebrated narrative chronicles Slocum's historic solo circumnavigation of the globe aboard his sloop Spray from 1895 to 1898, making him the first person ever to accomplish such a feat — a journey spanning some 46,000 miles across the world's most treacherous oceans. Written with disarming wit, quiet courage, and vivid descriptive power, Slocum illustrates not only the physical demands of solo seafaring but also the profound solitude and self-reliance that define a life at sea. The second account, Voyage of the Liberdade, details an earlier remarkable adventure in which Slocum, after losing his ship off the coast of Brazil, built a small vessel by hand and sailed his family over 5,000 miles home to the United States. Together, these two narratives stand as timeless testaments to human endurance, seamanship, and the irresistible pull of the open ocean.
Author: Captain Joshua Slocum
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, The Reprint Society, London
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work in adventure literature, Sailing Alone Around the World and Voyage of the Liberdade presents two extraordinary firsthand accounts by the legendary mariner Captain Joshua Slocum. The first and most celebrated narrative chronicles Slocum's historic solo circumnavigation of the globe aboard his sloop Spray from 1895 to 1898, making him the first person ever to accomplish such a feat — a journey spanning some 46,000 miles across the world's most treacherous oceans. Written with disarming wit, quiet courage, and vivid descriptive power, Slocum illustrates not only the physical demands of solo seafaring but also the profound solitude and self-reliance that define a life at sea. The second account, Voyage of the Liberdade, details an earlier remarkable adventure in which Slocum, after losing his ship off the coast of Brazil, built a small vessel by hand and sailed his family over 5,000 miles home to the United States. Together, these two narratives stand as timeless testaments to human endurance, seamanship, and the irresistible pull of the open ocean.