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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 .
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.
In his famous book, Sailing Alone Around the World, [19] now considered a classic of travel literature, he described his departure in the following manner: I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had ...
Robin Lee Graham (born March 5, 1949) is an American sailor.He set out to sail around the world alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. National Geographic magazine carried the story in installments (October 1968, April 1969, October 1970), and he co-wrote a book, titled Dove, detailing his journey.
In a growing gale, seven days out, his vessel was badly holed by an unknown object during a night storm, and became swamped, although it did not sink outright due to the watertight compartments Callahan had designed into the boat. In his book, Callahan writes that he suspects the damage occurred from a collision with a whale. [2] [3]
Nellie Bly traveled around the world with public steamboats and trains in 72 days (from 14 November 1889, to 25 January 1890), a world record, resembling the Around the World in Eighty Days novel. Clärenore Stinnes and Carl-Axel Söderström were the first persons to drive around the world in a car between 25 May 1927 and 24 June 1929.
In November 2014, Dekker's book One Girl, One Dream was published. [65] On 20 February 2015, she obtained a Yachtmaster Ocean Certificate (also becoming the youngest person to do so in the process). [66] She has been working towards doing long-distance educational sailings with children. She founded Laura Dekker World Sailing Foundation. [67]
Pages in category "Sailing books" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... Sailing Alone Around the World; Sailing Directions; The Sea-Wolf;