The Hard Way Around - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hard Way Around write by Geoffrey Wolff. This book was released on 2011-11-29. The Hard Way Around available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Alone Together
Alone Together - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alone Together write by Christian Williams. This book was released on 2016-02-28. Alone Together available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sailing Alone Around the Room
Sailing Alone Around the Room - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing Alone Around the Room write by Billy Collins. This book was released on 2002-09-17. Sailing Alone Around the Room available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sailing Alone Around the World
Sailing Alone Around the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing Alone Around the World write by Joshua Slocum. This book was released on 2006-08-31. Sailing Alone Around the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sailing Alone
Sailing Alone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing Alone write by Richard J. King. This book was released on 2024-05-21. Sailing Alone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A masterfully curated collection...You don’t have to be a sailor to be blown away by this fascinating, bighearted book.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, Travels with George, and Second Wind A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history of those who chose to sail across the ocean, in very small boats, alone. Sailing by yourself, out of sight of land, can be invigorating and terrifying, compelling and tedious - and sometimes all of the above in one morning. But it is also a wide expanse of time in which to think. Sailing Alone tells the story of some of the remarkable people who, over the last four centuries, have spent weeks and months, moving slowly over the world's largest laboratory: a capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars, and countless sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening. Richard J. King profiles characters famous, diverse, international, and obscure, from Joshua Slocum of 1898 to modern teenagers daring to take the challenge. They see strange hallucinations, lie to us (and themselves) on their travel logs, encounter sharks, befriend birds, and experience ESP, all part of the unnerving reality of extended isolation. And some disappear altogether. Sailing Alone also recounts the author's own nearly catastrophic solo crossing of the Atlantic, and the mystery of his inexplicable survival one sunny afternoon. An enormously engaging new book for skippers and armchair voyagers alike.
