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Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 - on or shortly after 14 November 1909) was a Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone Around the World. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his sloop-rigged fishing boat. Captain Slocum, a highly experienced navigator and ship-owner, rebuilt and refitted the derelict sloop Spray in a seaside pasture at Fairhaven, Massachusetts during a thirteen-month period between early 1893 and 1894. Between April 24, 1895 and June 27, 1898, Slocum, aboard the Spray, crossed the Atlantic twice (to Gibraltar and back to South America), negotiated the Strait of Magellan, and crossed the Pacific. He also visited Australia and South Africa before crossing the Atlantic (for the third time) to reach home after a journey of 46,000 miles.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Voyage of the Liberdade
• Author: Captain Joshua Slocum
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132
• EAN: 9781605972336
• ISBN: 9781605972336
• ID: 08780364
• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Weight: 264 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 191 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. March 2008

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