Around the World in a Dugout Canoe: The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum 9781550178791

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Автор: MacFarlane John, Salmon Lynn J.
Название: Around the World in a Dugout Canoe: The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum
ISBN: 9781550178791
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Биографии: общее жизнеописание

История Америк

Морская история

Географическое открытие и исследование

История инженерного дела и технологий производства

Корабли и лодки: общезначимые вопросы

ISBN-10: 1550178792
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 30.09.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 163 x 24
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Поставляется из: Англии
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The true story of the Tilikum and her captain, for fans of maritime history and tales of adventure on the high seas

Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island.

For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel.

Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage--and the magnitude of Vosss accomplishment--is at last fully detailed.

In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Vosss and Luxtons manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.

Around the World in a Dugout Canoe: The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum, MacFarlane John, Salmon Lynn J.