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Sailing Alone Around the World (Adlard Coles Maritime Classics) (Paperback)
Loot Price: R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
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Sailing Alone Around the World (Adlard Coles Maritime Classics) (Paperback)
Series: Adlard Coles Maritime Classics
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Loot Price R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
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Beautifully produced, with a Foreword by Dame Ellen MacArthur,
specially commissioned maps and atmospheric line drawings, this is
a classic edition of one of the greatest sea adventures of all
time. Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895
aboard the 37 foot sloop Spray remains one of the major feats of
singlehanded voyaging, and has since been the inspiration for the
many who have gone to sea in small boats. Starting from Boston in
1895, by the time he dropped anchor in Newport, Rhode Island over
three years after his journey began, he had cruised some 46,000
miles entirely by sail and entirely alone. With none of the
advantages of modern technology, Slocum faced fog, gales, gear
failure, coral reefs and attacks by pirates. He also devised his
own system of lashing the wheel into an early version of the modern
day autopilot, which enabled him to sail 2,000 miles across the
Pacific without once touching the helm. Slocum published his
account of the voyage in 1900, and the book was an immediate
success. Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic of sailing
literature, acclaimed as an unequalled masterpiece of vital yet
disciplined prose. It will be welcomed by all admirers of his
legendary achievement.
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