[PDF.15gw] The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum

The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum

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 | #1383036 in Books |  2010-10-19 |  2010-10-19 | Format: Deckle Edge | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x.89 x6.50l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A superb account of Joshua Slocum's passages|By Joseph J. McArdle|I first read Joshua Slocum's "Sailing Alone Around the World" about 40 years ago. Since then, I have read various works by and about Slocum, as well as the writings of passionate sailors whose imagination and energy led them to follow in the wake of the Spray. Geoffrey Wolff's objective and perceptive biography|From Publishers Weekly|In Wolff's (Edge of Maine) biographical sketch of Joshua Slocum, a 19th-century mariner explorer and entrepreneur, accounts of Slocum's bold exploits abound, and abound, and abound. After a rigid and dreary childhood, Slocum applied his su

A masterful biographer now offers a thrilling, definitive portrait of one of history’s most legendary icons of adventure.

In 1860, sixteen-year-old Joshua Slocum escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Nova Scotia by signing on as an ordinary seaman to a merchant ship bound for Dublin. Despite having only a third-grade education, Slocum rose through the nautical ranks at a mercurial pace; just a decade later he was commander of his own ship. His subsequent journ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum   |  Geoffrey Wolff.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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