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A man for all oceans : Captain Joshua Slocum and the first solo voyage around the world
- Title
- A man for all oceans : Captain Joshua Slocum and the first solo voyage around the world / Stan Grayson.
- Author
- Grayson, Stan, 1945-
- Publication
- Thomaston, ME : Tilbury House Publishers ; New Bedford, MA : New Bedford Whaling Museum, [2017]
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 17-1323 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 399 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In June 1898, a little more than three years after departing Boston in his rebuilt oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made landfall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain and owner during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, financial ruin, and the death at sea of his first wife and soulmate. Slocum's book about his circumnavigation, Sailing Alone Around the World, is a seafaring classic and has never been out of printing since its publication in 1900. But Slocum the man has remained unknowable, the shape of his life as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Now, at last, A Man for All Oceans reveals the man in full. A sailor himself, Stan Grayson has plumbed previously untapped original source materials to follow one of history's greatest sailors from obscure beginnings across the watery globe and the dying years of the great Age of Sail."--Page [2] of cover.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 383-385) and index.
- Contents
- Nova Scotia -- The Western Ocean and beyond -- San Francisco -- The Philippine Islands and the Pacific -- Northern light -- Virginia -- Nightmare -- Liberdade -- Fame but not fortune -- East Boston and Fairhaven -- The Spray -- "A Pollock in each hand" -- Boston to Gibraltar -- Gibraltar to the Rio de la Plata -- The Strait of Magellan -- To "lovely Australia" -- Around the home -- "This child of the sea" -- Recognition at last -- The shell collector -- The disappearance of Joshua Slocum.
- Call Number
- JFF 17-1323
- ISBN
- 9780884485483
- 088448548X
- LCCN
- 2017934121
- OCLC
- 988347408
- Author
- Grayson, Stan, 1945- author.
- Title
- A man for all oceans : Captain Joshua Slocum and the first solo voyage around the world / Stan Grayson.
- Publisher
- Thomaston, ME : Tilbury House Publishers ; New Bedford, MA : New Bedford Whaling Museum, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 383-385) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 17-1323