Allein Um Die Welt - Hardcover

Slocum, Captain Joshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3768802426 ISBN 13: 9783768802420

Publisher: Verlag Delius Klasing Bielefeld, 1977

Synopsis

The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six-foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world’s great circumnavigators – Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them his three-year solo voyage of more than 46,000 miles remains unmatched in maritime history for its courage, skill, and determination.Sailing Alone around the World recounts Slocum’s wonderful hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Tierra del Fuego; raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs; flying fish for breakfast in the Pacific; and a hilarious visit with fellow explorer Henry Stanley in South Africa. A century later, Slocum’s incomparable book endures as one of the greatest narratives of adventure ever written.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag Delius Klasing Bielefeld
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 3768802426
• ISBN 13: 9783768802420
• Binding: Hardcover