Download or read book Slocum and the Pirates written by Jake Logan and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum's caught between two devils of the deep blue sea - buccaneers and mutineers.
Download or read book Slocum and the Town Boss written by Jake Logan and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrison Gould, the dirty mayor of Joshville, is running for re-election, but he's more interested in running Slocum out of town. But when Slocum gets through with Gould's hardcase crew, the mayor's going to lose more than the election.
Download or read book A Man for All Oceans Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World written by Stan Grayson and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of years of research, A Man for All Oceans is the most comprehensive biography of Slocum ever published, and the first written by a small-boat sailor. Author/historian Grayson uncovered previously unknown original source materials to shed new light on one of history’s greatest sailors while answering questions that have been asked ever since the publication of Sailing Alone. In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocum’s book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Here is the real story of Slocum’s Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocum’s uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailor’s perspective to Slocum’s solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreau’s Walden and shows that Slocum’s simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured today’s emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocum’s world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.
Download or read book Slocum Giant 2007 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make no bones about it—Slocum’s out for revenge… He’s crossed the treacherous Sierra Madres. He’s suffered the deaths of his friend and lover. He’s been thrown into a rat-filled pit by drunken sailors. John Slocum’s trip to San Francisco’s Chinatown hasn’t been easy. But things start to look up when a lovely Asian flower saves his life—and Slocum finds himself not only in her bed, but in her debt… Her kindness, however, comes with strings attached. Ah Ming needs Slocum’s help to find her father, who’s been kidnapped by the Sum Yop gang. To pay his due, Slocum will find himself in an exotic world of opium dens and illegal jade trafficking. And he’ll learn that, if you head as far west as Frisco, it’s only a matter of time before you start heading east…
Download or read book Alone At Sea written by Ann Spencer and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Canada's greatest sailor, the first to sail around the world single-handedly. When Joshua Slocum sailed into port in Massachusetts on June 27, 1898, he was the first man ever to have completed a voyage around the world without technology, money or companion. It took him three years to cover the 46,000 miles, and along the way he was chased by pirates, buffeted by storms, and narrowly escaped death by sharks. When a goat ate his charts, he managed to navigate through the Caribbean by memory and intuition. This is the true-life adventure story of an extraordinary man, who ran away to sea at sixteen and never looked back. Born on a farm in Nova Scotia, he apprenticed on voyages to China, Hong Kong and Indonesia; met and married his wife in Sydney, Australia, and raised his family aboard sailing vessels in ports around the world. He survived mutinies, lost cargoes, terrible storms, and treacheries at sea before resolving on his voyage around the world in a dilapidated oyster sloop he named The Spray. After settling down and writing his memoirs, he set sail on November 14, 1909, and was never seen again.
Download or read book Sailing Alone written by Richard J. King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Download or read book Pirates Aboard written by Klaus Hympendahl and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Suggests what preventive measures sailors can take and advises how they should deal with stress, aggression, and fear when faced with a confrontation". - Back cover.
Download or read book The Race of The Oregon written by Paul A Gaumer and published by Paul A Gaumer. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local history book on voyage of USS Oregon to Jupiter Florida in 1898.
Download or read book Slocum and the Spotted Horse written by Jake Logan and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color illustration on front cover of three superimposed vignettes: head and neck portrait of man wearing brown western hat and red bandana holding a pistol in his proper right hand; bare-chested man wearing black pants embracing woman wearing orange and white dress; man in western clothing crouched down next to his horse in a grassy field with another horseman in the distance.
Download or read book Slocum 314 Slocum and the Deadwood Deal written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’ve got the wrong man. But Slocum’s sure as hell got the right woman… When John Slocum rides through Bender’s Gap, a local posse thinks they’ve found their man. Some lowdown smooth talker has cuckolded more than a few of the town’s husbands—and, unfortunately for Slocum, he’s the spittin’ image of the small-town Casanova… To save his hide, Slocum takes off on a mission of mercy. A stranger has written a letter, begging for his help. And Slocum’s luck turns when “J. Steward” turns out to be a woman in need—of Slocum’s tender loving care…
Download or read book Slocum s Pride written by Jake Logan and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of astounding adventures, "Sailing Alone Around the World" is the true story of the first man ever to circle the globe alone entirely by sea. In a little over three years, Captain Joshua Slocum completed the feat many experts believed couldn't be done-and had the stories to prove it. During his historic voyage, Slocum was chased by pirates in Gibraltar, soaked by a "rain of blood" in Australia, and battered by perilous storms in the open ocean. He also met many famous-and infamous-people along the way, from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, to Black Pedro, "the worst murderer in Tierra del Fuego." This absorbing tale, written with humor and poetic eloquence, was first published in 1900. Joshua Slocum clearly was an outstanding navigator and all around sailor. The section of the book on his adventures going around Cape Horn dealing with the weather, currents, and natives is particularly exciting. This is a story waiting for a Hollywood movie or, even better, a long running TV series. It is truly one of the great classics on sailing. Hearing about the ports and native people over 100 years ago is living history. If you pick one book to read about sailing, start with "Sailing Alone Around the World." Joshua Slocum is the "American Ulysses," and people will be reading and enjoying his book for the next thousand years. A classic work, it has been rightfully called one of the ten best adventure books of all time.
Download or read book Slocum and the Lady in Blue written by Jake Logan and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lady in blue has got Slocum seeing red.
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-01 with total page 1517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailing Adventures written by Anne M. Todd and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes adventures in sailing, including a description of how sailboats work, equipment sailors use, historic sailing expeditions, and recent sailing adventures.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
