Voyage of the Liberdade
Author | : Joshua Slocum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joshua Slocum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joshua Slocum |
Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780911378559 |
This definitive edition of all of Captain Joshua Slocum's writings is now being reissued in time for the 100th anniversary of Slocum's epic singlehanded voyage.
Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Account of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma.
Author | : Charles Fletcher Lummis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Overland journeys to the Pacific |
ISBN | : |
Lummis' foot journey from Ohio to Los Angeles. Very descriptive of the Southwest.
Author | : Joshua Slocum |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2006-08-31 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0713679352 |
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.
Author | : Matthew Kneale |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2011-02-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385673698 |
Narrated by over twenty distinct voices and full of dangerous humour, English Passengers combines wit, adventure and historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers have their contraband confiscated they are forced to put their ship, Sincerity, up for charter. The only takers are two Englishmen, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, who believes that the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania, and Dr. Thomas Potter who is developing his sinister thesis concerning the races of man. Meanwhile an aboriginal in Tasmania, Peevay, recounts his people's struggles against the invading British. As the English passengers haplessly approach his land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.
Author | : J. Slocum |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5872441576 |
Author | : Joshua Slocum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2015-06-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781514742143 |
North America's best-known sailor - the first man to sail single-highhandedly around the world. Joshua Slocum is widely known for his Sailing Around the World Alone, the story of his solo circumnavigation. The Voyage of the Liberdade, his first book, is equally compelling. In it he recounts his journey to Brazil and back - he sailed down on the Aquidneck, his own ship, and returned on the Liberdade, which he built there. What happened? Slocum describes sailing from port to port in Brazil, trying to take in and deliver enough cargo on the Aquidneck to make her voyage profitable. Through a series of mishaps he is saddled with a crew which turns out to be composed of brigands, not sailors: "My pirates thought their opportunity had surely come to capture the Aquidneck, and this they undertook to do. The ringleader of the gang was a burly scoundrel, whose boast was that he had "licked both the mate and second mate of the last vessel he had sailed in, and had "busted the captain in the jaw"...Near midnight, my wife, who had heard the first footstep on deck, quietly wakened me, saying, "We must get up, and look out for ourselves! Something is going wrong on deck; the boat tackle has been let go with a great deal of noise..." My first impulse was to step on deck in the usual way, but the earnest entreaties of my wife awoke me, like, to a danger that should be investigated with caution. Arming myself therefore, with a stout carbine repeater, and eight ball cartridges in the magazine, I stepped on deck abaft instead of forward, where evidently I had been expected..." Slocum, who landed in jail for shooting a one of the mutineers, eventually lost the Aquidneck on the reefs. Not wanting to remain a castaway in Brazil, he and his family built the Liberdade, the ship that would bring them home: "Her dimensions being - 35 feet in length over all, 7-1/2 feet breadth of beam, and 3 feet depth of hold, who shall say that she was not large enough? Her model I got from my recollections of Cape Ann dories and from a photo of a very elegant Japanese sampan which I had before me on the spot, so, as it might be expected, when finished, she resembled both types of vessel in some degree. Her rig was the Chinese sampan style, which is, I consider, the most convenient boat rig in the whole world. This was the boat, or canoe I prefer to call it, in which we purposed to sail for North America and home. Each one had been busy during the construction and past misfortunes had all been forgotten. Madam had made the sails - and very good sails they were, too!" Join the self-reliant and intrepid Slocum on his voyage and gain a glimpse into the romantic era that vanished when steam took over. And perhaps his book will inspire you to follow in his footsteps in your own Liberdade!
Author | : Timothy Findley |
Publisher | : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Arche de Noé - Romans |
ISBN | : 9780140073065 |
Author | : Sandra Branco |
Publisher | : Bravo Limited |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2010-05-04 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1857335368 |
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