Sailing Alone Around The World
Sailing Alone Around The World
Author:Joshua Slocum
English | 478 mins | Publisher: LibriVox | ISBN: 0140437363 | MP3 - 64kbs | 226.8 MB
Author:Joshua Slocum
English | 478 mins | Publisher: LibriVox | ISBN: 0140437363 | MP3 - 64kbs | 226.8 MB
Chapter 1 : A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities–Youthful fondness for the sea–Master of the ship Northern Light–Loss of the Aquidneck–Return home from Brazil in the canoe Liberdade–The gift of a ship–The rebuilding of the Spray-Conundrums in regard to finance and calking–The launching of the Spray. 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. On the northern slope of the range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers, of which many vessels of all classes have been built. The people of this coast, hardy, robust, and strong, are disposed to compete in the world's commerce…