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03
2008
Joshua Slocum (Author), Thomas Fogarty (Illustrator), George Varian (Illustrator) - Sailing Alone Around the World (Paperback)
Posted by: yachting-live in Books, tags: George Varian (Illustrator) - Sailing Alone Around the , Joshua Slocum (Author), Thomas Fogarty (Illustrator)Review
…a literate and absorbing yarn published in 1900 and still in print… His story is a convincing tale of the intelligence, skill and fortitude that drove a master navigator. –New York Times
Review
A classic book… Slocum s writing is as elegant as his thirty-seven-foot sloop, SPRAY, whose crossing of the Atlantic he describes vividly. –New Yorker
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As a writer Slocum is given to plain understatement, dry wit, wry humor and Yankee observations about nature that led some to call him a sea-locked Thoreau. … he offers descriptive glances at the sea, in storm or calm, that can rival those of Joseph Conrad. –Smithsonian
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