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Swallows and Amazons series (23 P) Pages in category "Sailing books" ... Sailing Alone Around the World; Sailing Directions; The Sea-Wolf;
Book series published over the years by Rupert Hart-Davis included the Reynard Library [9] [10] of reprints of works from the great English writers, the Mariners Library of reprints of nautical books, [11] [12] and the Soho Bibliographies started with W. B. Yeats by Allan Wade in 1951.
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.
With some exceptions, the exact ages of the characters are not stated. In the first book they run from Roger at seven to about 12 to 14 (John and Nancy). All characters age as the series goes on; the final book occurs three to four years after the first. (See timeline below.) There is an inconsistency in the only two dates mentioned in the series.
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 ...
In the world of sailing Frank Cowper's Sailing Tours (1892–1896) [4] and Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World (1900) are classics of outdoor literature. [5] In April 1895, Joshua Slocum set sail from Boston, Massachusetts and in Sailing Alone Around the World, [6] he described his departure:
The Silent Traveller series – 11 books about his travels in Britain, the US and Japan; Ella Maillart (1903 – 1997) – Swiss travel writer. Turkestan Solo - One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum (her journey from Moscow to Kirghizstan and Uzbekistan in 1932) The Cruel Way (from Geneva to Kabul)
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