[Rarebooks] Slocum - SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD

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Slocum (Captain Joshua) SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD
Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian.

First edition: xvi + 294 pages, frontispiece, numerous charts and  
illustrations, original blue decorated cloth with silver titling on  
the upper cover and spine and with a green double seahorse and silver  
anchor motif on the upper cover, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, the  
top of the spine is bumped, overall a bright copy.

Slocum completed his voyage around the world between 24th April 1895  
and 27th June 1898 a journey of 46,000 miles becoming the first man to  
sail around the world single-handed in a small boat.

Sailing Alone Around the World was first serialised in The Century  
Magazine and then in book form by The Century Co.in 1900.

First edition, The Century Co., New York, 1900

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