Around the world in the sloop Spray
Subtitle: describing Captain Slocum's voyage alone around the world
By: by Captain Joshua Slocum
Series: Scribner series of school reading; Harvard social studies textbooks preservation microfilm project -- 01959
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1903
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Voyages around the world; Readers; Travel; Spray (Sloop)
Description: "Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray."-Wikipedia.
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