The hard way around : the passages of Joshua Slocum /
Geoffrey Wolff.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- 218 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Sailing into the world -- The tales he could have told -- Unafraid of a capful of wind -- Coming aboard through the hawse-hole -- Master Slocum -- Love stories -- Enterprises -- Northern light -- Mutiny -- Stranding -- Sailing around it -- Salvage -- Destroyer and Poverty Point -- The great adventure -- What came after.
9781400043422 1400043425
2010018344
Slocum, Joshua, b. 1844.
Liberdade (Ship) Destroyer (Ship) Spray (Sloop)
Sailors--United States--Biography. Ship captains--United States--Biography. Voyages around the world--History. Single-handed sailing--History.
Class of Spring 2007 Berthold Leibinger Fellow Fellow Written at the Academy