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The Hard Way Around

✍ Scribed by Wolff, Geoffrey

Book ID: 110485855
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780307594631

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✦ Synopsis

A masterful biographer now offers a thrilling, definitive portrait of one of history's most legendary icons of adventure.

In 1860, sixteen-year-old Joshua Slocum escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Nova Scotia by signing on as an ordinary seaman to a merchant ship bound for Dublin. Despite having only a third-grade education, Slocum rose through the nautical ranks at a mercurial pace; just a decade later he was commander of his own ship. His subsequent journeys took him nearly everywhere: Liverpool, China, Japan, Cape Horn, the Dutch East Indies, Manila, Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore, San Francisco, and Australia--where he met and married his first wife, Virginia, who would sail along with him for the rest of her life, bearing and raising their children at sea. He commanded eight vessels and owned four, enduring hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, a mutiny, and the death of his wife and three of his children. Yet his ultimate adventure and crowning...
Number of Words in Auth: 2
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All Identifiers : isbn:978-0-307-59463-1
Single Author : Geoffrey Wolff
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