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Alone Around The World, by Joshua Slocum
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Title: Sailing Alone Around The World
Author: Joshua Slocum
Illustrator: Thomas Fogarty George Varian
Posting Date: October 12, 2010 Release Date: August, 2004 [EBook #6317] [This file was first posted on November 25, 2002]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD
[Illustration: The "Spray" from a photograph taken in Australian waters.]
SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD
By Captain Joshua Slocum
Illustrated by THOMAS FOGARTY AND GEORGE VARIAN
[Illustration]
TO THE ONE WHO SAID: "THE 'SPRAY' WILL COME BACK."
CONTENTS
* CHAPTER I
A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities--Youthful fondness for the sea--Master of the ship Northern Light--Loss of the Aquidneck--Return home from Brazil in the canoe Liberdade--The gift of a "ship"--The rebuilding of the Spray--Conundrums in regard to finance and calking--The launching of the Spray.
* CHAPTER II
Failure as a fisherman--A voyage around the world projected--From Boston to Gloucester--Fitting out for the ocean voya