The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss
Publisher: Charles E. Laurint Company
Published: 1926
Description: Capt. John Voss was an amazing one-of-a-kind Canadian sailor, who, at the beginning of the last century made a series of transoceanic voyages in tiny sailing craft barely larger than life boats.  The Venturesome Voyages tells of three of them.
His most famous and the longest tale in the book is the Tilikum voyage, in which he modified a 38' Canadian cedar, Indian dugout for blue water service.  Then from 1901 to 1904, he and an ever changing series of companions undertook a 3 year, 40,000 mile, 3 ocean adventure from British Columbia, Canada to Kent, England. The remarkable tale is replete with South Seas isles, primitive cultures, battling gales nd typhoons, lost at sea, a death at sea, even the smashing of the Tilikum. It's an amazing tale.
The other tales describe the treasure hunting expedition off Peru in the 35' Xora and the extraordinary voyage of the 25' Sea Queen which sailed head-on into one of the century's worst typhoons.  It is an amazing tale of seacraft and survival.
For more than 100 years Voss' Voyages has rightly had a place in sailing libraries.