The Hard Way Around
  • Published: 29 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307745453
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Hard Way Around

The Passages of Joshua Slocum

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19 Oct 2010
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29 Nov 2011
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In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again.

In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
  • Published: 29 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307745453
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Geoffrey Wolff

Geoffrey Wolff graduated in 1961 from Princeton University summa cum laude, studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, and has since taught at Prrinceton, and Istanbul University. He has been the literary critic of the Washington Post, Newsweek and New Times, and has written for many other periodicals, among them Atlantic Monthly. A Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for Humanities and a Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of four novels, Bad Debts (1969), The Sightseer (1974), Inklings (1978) and Providence (1986)

He is also the author of the highy acclaimed The Duke of Deception (Vintage), the irresistable and touching memoir of his father, about which Richard Forde wrote: 'as pretty and winning a book on as serious a subject as you'll find in contemporary American writing' (Sunday Times).

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