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"The classic of its kind." --Travel World"One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure." --Sports Illustrated"The finest single-handed adventure story yet written." --SeafarerChallenged by an expert who said it couldn't be done, Joshua Slocum, an indomitable New England sea capta... Read More about Sailing Alone Around the World

Decades after Jessica Mitford stunned America with vivid accounts of corruption and abuse in the death industry, not much has improved. Families are manipulated into buying expensive goods and services they don't need or want. Prepaid funeral money vanishes into thin air. Body parts are sold on the ... Read More about Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death

The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.   Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone ... Read More about Sailing Alone around the World

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work... Read More about Voyages of the Liberdade

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work... Read More about Voyages of the Liberdade

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work... Read More about Around the World in the Sloop Spray