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Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
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Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1909.
Liberdade (Ship)
Destroyer (Ship)
Spray (Sloop)
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
Ship captains -- United States -- Biography.
Voyages around the world -- History.
Single-handed sailing -- History.
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The hard way around ...
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The hard way around : the passages of Joshua Slocum / Geoffrey Wolff.
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Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Subjects
Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1909.
Liberdade (Ship)
Destroyer (Ship)
Spray (Sloop)
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
Ship captains -- United States -- Biography.
Voyages around the world -- History.
Single-handed sailing -- History.
ISBN:
9781400043422 :
1400043425
Description:
218 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Sailing into the world. The tales he could have told ; Unafraid of a capful of wind ; Coming aboard through the hawse-hole ; Master Slocum ; Love stories ; Enterprises ; Northern light ; Mutiny ; Stranding -- Sailing around it. Salvage ; Destroyer and Poverty Point ; The great adventure ; What came after.
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A portrait of the legendary sea commander traces his rapid rise from an uneducated childhood in mid-nineteenth-century Nova Scotia to the leader of ships that experienced high-danger adventures, including the first documented solo journey around the world.
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
910.41092 Slocum Wo
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Adult Nonfiction
910.41092 Slocum Wo
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Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
910.41092 Slocum Wo
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