The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone

The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone
Author: Robin Lee Graham
Publisher: Goldencraft
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1973-10-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780307665102

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Recounts the voyage of a California sixteen-year-old who spent nearly five years sailing alone around the world.

Sailing Alone Around the World

Sailing Alone Around the World
Author: Joshua Slocum
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2006-08-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0713679352

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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.

The Hard Way Around

The Hard Way Around
Author: Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307745457

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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.

The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World

The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World
Author: Joshua Slocum
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1574092758

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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.

Sailing Alone Around the Room

Sailing Alone Around the Room
Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2002-09-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0375755195

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Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.

Alone Around the World

Alone Around the World
Author: Naomi James
Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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A first-hand narrative of her epic sea voyage by the first woman to sail alone around the world.

At One with the Sea

At One with the Sea
Author: Naomi James
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre: Single-handed sailing
ISBN:

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In 1978 the twenty-eight-year-old New Zealander, Naomi James, became the first woman to sail single-handed around the globe via Cape Horn. She did this in the fastest time ever. Naomi tells of her despair when the radio broke and she faced months of silence; of her embarrassment at discovering after three months at sea, that she had been confusing latitude with longitude; of her grief when the ship's kitten, Boris, went overboard; and of the black horror of a dawn capsize off Cape Horn.

Voyage of the Liberdade

Voyage of the Liberdade
Author: Joshua Slocum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1890
Genre: Voyages and travels
ISBN:

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Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage
Author: Tania Aebi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1476711607

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What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love. Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat, she’d have to sail around the world—alone. She chose the boat, and for the next two and a half years and 27,000 miles, it was her home. With only her cat as companion, she discovered the wondrous beauties of the Great Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the Red Sea. She suffered through a terrifying collision with a tanker in the Mediterranean and a lightning storm off the coast of Gibraltar. And, ultimately, what began with the sheer desire for adventure turned into a spiritual quest as Tania came to terms with her troubled family life, fell in love for the first time, and—most of all—confronted her own needs, desires, dreams, and goals…

Across Islands and Oceans

Across Islands and Oceans
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Single-handed sailing
ISBN: 9781470004613

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Across Islands and Oceans is the memoir of twenty-five year-old James Baldwin and his epic two-year, solo circumnavigation in Atom, his trusty but aging twenty-eight foot sailboat. Early on and "as broke as [he] dared to be," James determined not only to sail around the world, but also to hike across every island that he visits. His inland forays are unique in the literature of circumnavigators as he finds danger, humor, friendship and romance in places most sailors will never visit. James' story unfolds in his earnest exploration of distant lands and seas, his meditations on the people whose lives he touched, and his greater voyage to explore his own private ocean of solitude. His adventure is not merely an attempt to seek thrills, nor even to tempt death, but rather a voyage of discovery as he set out in the direction of his youthful dreams to meet the life he imagined. "Go seek what you will, where you will, but be a seeker all of your life." -James Baldwin