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Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.
Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 [1] – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer.
Swallows and Amazons series (23 P) Pages in category "Sailing books" ... Sailing Alone Around the World; Sailing Directions; The Sea-Wolf;
The book detailed Jesse Martin’s experience on his own solo sailing journey across the world. This moment in her life inspired Jessica to work to make the voyage herself before her 17th birthday .
To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of nautical novels—Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's ...
Christian Williams (born July 9, 1943) is an American journalist, television writer, and yachtsman. [1] A former editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate era, he later created two television dramas and is the author of five books including the Ted Turner biography Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way.
His book, The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy; [18] McMullen's book, Down Channel, published in 1869, [19] and Frank Cowper's classic Sailing Tours series (1892–96) inspired many people to cruise. [20] [21] The first authenticated single-handed ocean crossing was made in 1876 by a 30-year-old fisherman named Alfred "Centennial" Johnson.
A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester.It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line.By internal chronology, A Ship of the Line, which follows The Happy Return, is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished Hornblower and the Crisis).