Sailing alone around the world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Pan Books,
1950.
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| Item Description: | "First published 1900." -- verso t.p. When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. Not one for retiring to earthy pastures, Slocum rebuilt a hundred-year old sloop and set off from Boston in 1895 on the first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. |
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| Physical Description: | 254 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm. |