Author : Naomi James
Publisher : Penguin Adult HC/TR
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A first-hand narrative of her epic sea voyage by the first woman to sail alone around the world.
Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307745457
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, 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, Sailing Alone Around the World, 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. 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.
Author : Robin Lee Graham
Publisher : Goldencraft
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1973-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307665102
Recounts the voyage of a California sixteen-year-old who spent nearly five years sailing alone around the world.
Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0713679352
Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. This work offers Slocum's account of his epic voyage. It is intended for admirers of his legendary achievement.
Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0375755195
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.
Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574092758
Joshua Slocum¿s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context that will make Slocum¿s masterpiece more accessible to today¿s readers¿sailors and landlubbers alike.
Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN :
Author : Naomi James
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Single-handed sailing
ISBN :
In 1978 the twenty-eight-year-old New Zealander, Naomi James, became the first woman to sail single-handed around the globe via Cape Horn. She did this in the fastest time ever. Naomi tells of her despair when the radio broke and she faced months of silence; of her embarrassment at discovering after three months at sea, that she had been confusing latitude with longitude; of her grief when the ship's kitten, Boris, went overboard; and of the black horror of a dawn capsize off Cape Horn.
Author : Van Huyssteen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2006-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802832467
In Alone in the World? -- first given as the 2004 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh -- J. Wentzel van Huyssteen develops the interdisciplinary dialogue that he set out in The Shaping of Rationality (1999), applying this methodology to the uncharted waters between theological anthropology and paleoanthropology. Among other things, van Huyssteen argues that scientific notions of human uniqueness help us to ground theological notions of human distinctiveness in flesh-and-blood, embodied experiences and protect us from overly complex theological abstractions regarding the "image of God." Focusing on the interdisciplinary problem of human origins and distinctiveness, van Huyssteen accesses the origins of the embodied human mind through the spectacular prehistoric cave paintings of western Europe, fifteen of which are reproduced in color in this volume. Boldly connecting the widely separated fields of Christian theology and paleoanthropology through careful interdisciplinary reflection, Alone in the World? will encourage sustained investigation into the question of human uniqueness.
Author : Harry Pidgeon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0486259463
Fascinating firsthand narrative recounts author's circumnavigation of the globe in 34-foot sailboat he built himself. Tropical islands, natives, exotic ports, storms, near-shipwreck, many other adventures. 61 photographs.
