The Hard Way Around
Author: Wolff, Geoffrey
ISBN: 9780307745453
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 29 Nov 2011
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
p>In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the i>Spray, /i>a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, i>Sailing Alone Around the World/i>, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more-never to be seen again.br>br>In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy./p>
ISBN: 9780307745453
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 29 Nov 2011
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
p>In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the i>Spray, /i>a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, i>Sailing Alone Around the World/i>, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more-never to be seen again.br>br>In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy./p>
