"Vintage books." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Sailing into the world -- Prologue: 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 -- pt. 2. Sailing around it -- Salvage -- Destroyer and Poverty Point -- The great adventure -- What came after.
Summary:
A portrait of the legendary sea commander traces his rapid rise from an uneducated childhood in mid-nineteenth-century Nova Scotia to the leader of ships that experienced high-danger adventures, including the first documented solo journey around the world.
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