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Around the World Single-Handed: The Cruise of the “Islander” (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure)
Around the World Single-Handed: The Cruise of the “Islander” (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure)
Record of remarkable journey made between 1921 and 1925 by lone mariner in his 34-foot homemade boat. Lively narrative enhanced with 61 photographs tells of his circumnavigation of globe via Hawaii, Samoa, the New Hebrides and across the Indian Ocean to Africa and across the Atlantic to Panama and home.
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Review by John M. Beasley for Around the World Single-Handed: The Cruise of the “Islander” (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure)
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While Harry Pidgeon’s feat of sailing around the world is exceptional, and his writing style clear and concise, he offers few insights into sailing or his life. The book is fashioned after Joshua Slocum’s “Sailing Alone Around The World:” Or equally as likely, Pidgeon and Slocum were two men of a like mind. In any event, both men portray that 19th century reserve so characteristic of the Englishmen. Such reserve in the face of near scrapes with death maybe admirable, but it does not make for as interesting reading.