A Voyage in the Sunbeam
by Annie Brassey
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Annie, Lady Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her family. Her husband was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty who made many ocean voyages by steam yacht to test this new technology. Annie Brassey's description of these travels led to her becoming a best-selling author. This volume, first published in 1878, contains her lively and detailed account of her family's circumnavigation in the Sunbeam, show more the first circumnavigation of the world by a steam yacht. Written in the form of a diary and based on letters sent to her father, this volume mixes exotic descriptions with lively accounts of domestic life on board, and was immensely popular. The book illustrates the attitudes of middle-class Victorians to exotic locations and cultures. show lessTags
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Delightful travelogue recounting an 11 month voyage around the world, in 1876-77, by the 159 ft, three-masted yacht 'Sunbeam', which had an auxiliary steam engine. Anne Brassey vividly describes the places visited and the people met - this was travel in the grand style, during the high-point of British influence.
Republication of her earlier work, 1887, Around the world in the yacht 'Sunbeam'.
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Mrs. Brassey entirely shares her husband's tastes and interests, and evidently is cut out for a traveler, and thus it came about that on July 1, 1876, they started in their magnificent steam yacht, the Sunbeam, for a tour of the world.… No reader of this book can fail to be pleased with it, and with the exquisite drawings by which Mr. Bingham has illustrated the singularly felicitous show more descriptions. show less
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Annie (Allnut) Brassey (1839-1887) was an English adventurer, writer, and humanitarian. She was married to Thomas Brassey, a British railroad heir and MP. Her granddaughter, Idina Sackville, was the subject of Frances Osborne's best-selling biography, The Bolter (Knopf, 2009). Ms. Brassey died at the age of 48 of malaria while at sea.
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- Canonical title
- A Voyage in the Sunbeam
- Original title
- A voyage in the "Sunbeam" : our home on the ocean for eleven months
- Original publication date
- 1878
- People/Characters
- Anna Brassey, Baroness Brassey
- Important places
- Madeira, Portugal; Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; Santo Antão, Cabo Verde; Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina (show all 10); Chile; Tahiti; Hawaii; Japan
- Original language
- English UK
Classifications
- Genres
- Travel, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 910.41 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Pirates & Shipwrecks Circumnavigation of the Earth
- LCC
- G440 .B8 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Special voyages and travels
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- 71
- Popularity
- 440,275
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.00)
- Languages
- English, French, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 9
