The Hard Way Around: the Passages of Joshua Slocum by Geoffrey Wolff

The Hard Way Around: the Passages of Joshua Slocum

Geoffrey Wolff

240 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous slow-paced
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A masterful biographer now offers a thrilling, definitive portrait of one of history’s most legendary icons of adventure.In 1860, sixteen-year-old Joshua Slocum escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Nova Scotia by signing on as an ordinary seaman to...

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