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The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum

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Availability:In StockContributor:Geoffrey WolffSeries:Vintage DeparturesPublish date:2011-11-29Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307745453ISBN-10:307745457UPC:9780307745453Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, TransportationBook Subcategory:Adventurers & Explorers, Ships & ShipbuildingBook Topic:HistorySize:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCZEPJCTEC

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307745453ISBN-10:307745457UPC:9780307745453Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, TransportationBook Subcategory:Adventurers & Explorers, Ships & ShipbuildingBook Topic:HistorySize:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCZEPJCTEC

Geoffrey Wolff is the author of five works of nonfiction and six novels. In 1994 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Bath, Maine.


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