A man for all oceans : Captain Joshua Slocum and the first solo voyage around the world / Stan Grayson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grayson, Stan, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1909.

Slocum, Joshua.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 399 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Thomaston, ME : Tilbury House Publishers ; New Bedford, MA : New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2017.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Nova Scotia 5

Chapter 2 The Western Ocean and Beyond 21

Chapter 3 San Francisco 37

Chapter 4 The Philippine Islands and the Pacific 59

Chapter 5 Northern Light 77

Chapter 6 Virginia 95

Chapter 7 Nightmare 107

Chapter 8 Liberdade 123

Chapter 9 Fame but Not Fortune 137

Chapter 10 East Boston and Fairhaven 149

Chapter 11 The Spray 161

Chapter 12 "A Pollock in Each Hand" 171

Chapter 13 Boston to Gibraltar 187

Chapter 14 Gibraltar to the Rio de la Plata 203

Chapter 15 The Strait of Magellan 215

Chapter 16 To "Lovely Australia" 229

Chapter 17 Around and Home 247

Chapter 18 "This Child of the Sea" 263

Chapter 19 Recognition at Last 279

Chapter 20 The Shell Collector 295

Chapter 21 The Disappearance of Joshua Slocum 319.

ISBN:

9780884485483

088448548X

OCLC:

988347408

Publisher Number:

99972582191