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VOYAGE OF THE LIBERDADE By Captain Joshua Slocum **BRAND NEW**

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ISBN-10
1514742144
Publication Name
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Type
Paperback
ISBN
9781514742143
Book Title
Voyage of the Liberdade
Publisher
CreateSpace
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2015
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.3 in
Author
Joshua Slocum
Genre
Travel, History
Topic
Essays & Travelogues, Expeditions & Discoveries
Item Weight
9 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
132 Pages

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North America's best-known sailor - the first man to sail single-highhandedly around the world. Joshua Slocum is widely known for his Sailing Around the World Alone, the story of his solo circumnavigation. The Voyage of the Liberdade, his first book, is equally compelling. In it he recounts his journey to Brazil and back - he sailed down on the Aquidneck, his own ship, and returned on the Liberdade, which he built there. What happened? Slocum describes sailing from port to port in Brazil, trying to take in and deliver enough cargo on the Aquidneck to make her voyage profitable. Through a series of mishaps he is saddled with a crew which turns out to be composed of brigands, not sailors: "My pirates thought their opportunity had surely come to capture the Aquidneck, and this they undertook to do. The ringleader of the gang was a burly scoundrel, whose boast was that he had "licked both the mate and second mate of the last vessel he had sailed in, and had "busted the captain in the jaw"...Near midnight, my wife, who had heard the first footstep on deck, quietly wakened me, saying, "We must get up, and look out for ourselves! Something is going wrong on deck; the boat tackle has been let go with a great deal of noise..." My first impulse was to step on deck in the usual way, but the earnest entreaties of my wife awoke me, like, to a danger that should be investigated with caution. Arming myself therefore, with a stout carbine repeater, and eight ball cartridges in the magazine, I stepped on deck abaft instead of forward, where evidently I had been expected..." Slocum, who landed in jail for shooting a one of the mutineers, eventually lost the Aquidneck on the reefs. Not wanting to remain a castaway in Brazil, he and his family built the Liberdade, the ship that would bring them home: "Her dimensions being - 35 feet in length over all, 7-1/2 feet breadth of beam, and 3 feet depth of hold, who shall say that she was not large enough? Her model I got from my recollections of Cape Ann dories and from a photo of a very elegant Japanese sampan which I had before me on the spot, so, as it might be expected, when finished, she resembled both types of vessel in some degree. Her rig was the Chinese sampan style, which is, I consider, the most convenient boat rig in the whole world. This was the boat, or canoe I prefer to call it, in which we purposed to sail for North America and home. Each one had been busy during the construction and past misfortunes had all been forgotten. Madam had made the sails - and very good sails they were, too!" Join the self-reliant and intrepid Slocum on his voyage and gain a glimpse into the romantic era that vanished when steam took over. And perhaps his book will inspire you to follow in his footsteps in your own Liberdade!

Product Identifiers

Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1514742144
ISBN-13
9781514742143
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234998538

Product Key Features

Book Title
Voyage of the Liberdade
Number of Pages
132 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Essays & Travelogues, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Travel, History
Author
Joshua Slocum
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition
21
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
910.4/5

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