The Hard Way Around The Passages of Joshua Slocum Geoffrey Wolff Knopf, pp, $ Joshua Slocum was a hero of my salt-smitten youth. Along with all the usual suspects, from Treasure Island to Moby Dick, and Lone Voyager to The Sea Around Us, I devoured Sailing Alone Around the World. But that was that. I never knew more about Slocum's life than what I had read in his account . · He was a calculating gambling man with economic savoir faire, an awareness of the world, and a lucky-streak as wide as his wake. Ultimately, however, despite his resourcefulness, courage, and cunning, it's difficult to ignore his personal shortcomings; Wolff cannot write around Slocum's arrogance and general unpleasantness as a bltadwin.rury: Free. · Geoffrey Wolff takes on the noted seaman Joshua Slocum, whose first-in-history solo navigation around the world, in the late s, was far from his only sailing bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.
About The Hard Way Around. In Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot bltadwin.ru than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally bltadwin.ru scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set. The Hard Way Around: The Passages Of Joshua Slocum (Vintage Departures)|Geoffrey Wolff, Excerpta Tudoriana Or, Extracts From Elizabethan Literature|Egerton Brydges, America, Through The Spectacles Of An Oriental Diplomat|Tingfang, Building Christianity On Indian Foundations|Timothy C. Tennent. The author frequently lauds Slocum's autobiographical works—especially Sailing Alone Around the World ()—describing his writing as fresh-voiced and richly nuanced, and he quotes from these publications to add context to the narrative. A rewarding tale of life on the high seas.
The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum by Geoffrey Wolff (, Hardcover). He was a calculating gambling man with economic savoir faire, an awareness of the world, and a lucky-streak as wide as his wake. Ultimately, however, despite his resourcefulness, courage, and cunning, it's difficult to ignore his personal shortcomings; Wolff cannot write around Slocum's arrogance and general unpleasantness as a man. “As one would expect from Geoffrey Wolff, The Hard Way Around is an engrossing and energetically written life of a very tricky and complex character. Slocum has at last met, in the author of The Duke of Deception, the biographer he has long deserved.” —Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau.
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