Sailing alone around the world, and Voyage of the Liberdade

Contains

Canonical title

Sailing alone around the world, and Voyage of the Liberdade

Original publication date

1948

People/Characters

Joshua Slocum; Aquidneck (sloop); Victor Slocum; Garfield Slocum; Friday (dog, rescued at sea); Liberdade (35-foot sailing canoe) (show all 17); Mr Newkirk (Canadian treasure hunter, Cabo Frio, Brazil); HMS Thetis (sank, 1830); Anderson (family of South Santee, South Carolina, USA); Captain Bloodgood (of the Packet, schooner); Packet (40-ton Carolina schooner); Spray (36-foot, 9-ton sloop); Fanny Stevenson; Akbar (pseudonym, cutter-yacht); Henry Morton Stanley (in South Africa, 1897); flat-Earthers (in South Africa, 1897); Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger (in 1897)

Important places

Atlantic Ocean; Montevideo, Uruguay; Antonina, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Brazil; Rosario, Brazil; Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Argentina (show all 53); Maldonado, Uruguay; Isla de Flores, River Plate, Uruguay; Guarakasava, Brazil; River Paranaguá, Brazil; Cabo Frio, Brazil (as Cape Frio); Abrolhos Archipelago, Brazil; São Paulo, Brazil; Bahia de Todos os Santos, Brazil; Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; Cay Lobos Lighthouse, Bahamas; Cape Romain Lighthouse, South Carolina, USA (as Cape Roman); New River, North Carolina, USA; Beaufort, North Carolina, USA; Washington, D.C., USA (Christmas 1882); Fairhaven, Massachusetts, USA; Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA; Brier Island, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; Azores; Gibraltar; Castillo Chicos, Uraguay; Punta Arenas, Chile (as Sandy Point); Strait of Magellan; Tierra del Fuego; Pacific Ocean; Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile; Apia, Samoa; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Tasmania, Australia; Devonport, Tasmania, Australia; South Solitary Island, New South Wales, Australia; Bowen, Queensland, Australia; Cooktown, Queensland, Australia; Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia (Diamond Jubilee corroboree, 22 June 1897); Booby Island, Queensland, Australia; Arafura Sea; Cocos (Keeling | Keeling); Rodrigues, Mauritius; Mauritius; Durban, South Africa; Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; St Helena; Ascension Island; Trinidad (lighthouse); Dominica; Sargasso Sea ('horse latitudes'); Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Important events

cholera (Buenos Aires, 1886); mutiny (1887); smallpox (Isla de Flores, Uruguay, 1887); Christmas (Washington, D.C., USA, 1888); corroboree (Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, 1897); Diamond Jubilee (Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, 1897)

Epigraph

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Dedication

To the one who said: "The Spray will come back".

Sailing alone around the world.

First words

Sailing alone around the world is one of the immortal books.

Introduction, by Arthur Ransome.

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In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fundy on one side and the fertile Annapolis valley on the other.

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To get underweigh: It was on the 28th of February, 1886, that the bark Aquidneck, laden with case-oil, sailed from New York to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, the strip of land bounding the River Plate on the east,... (show all) and called by the natives "Banda Oriental."

Voyage of the Liberdade.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The days passed happily with me wherever my ship sailed.

Sailing alone around the world.

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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Finally, upon return of spring, the Liberdade was refitted on a voyage retracing her course to Washington, where, following a safe arrival, she will end her days in the Smithsonian Institution; a haven of honour that many will be glad to know she has won.

Voyage of the Liberdade.

Blurbers

Hughes, Richard

Original language

English

Disambiguation notice

Please do not combine this omnibus with the individual work Sailing Alone Around the World (1900), which does not contain ... (show all)92>Voyage of the Liberdade (1894).