{"product_id":"40000-miles-in-a-canoe-the-sailors-classics-3-9780071373333","title":"40 000 Miles in a Canoe (The Sailor's Classics #3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I have found every word of Vosss concerning ships and the sea to be pure gold.\"--Weston Martyr  sailing author On May 27  1901  Captain John C. Voss  accompanied by journalist Norman Luxton  put to sea in Tilikum  a thirty-eight-foot by five-foot dugout canoe purchased on Vancouver Island from Nootka Indians. Voss was a professional sailor who  like Joshua Slocum  had been idled in the twilight of commercial sail. Luxton  a nautical innocent  was along to record the voyage for posterity. Slocums best-seller  Sailing Alone around the World  had been published the year before  and Voss and Luxtons goal was to make a name for themselves by circling the globe in a vessel smaller than Slocums Spray. Drawing a mere 24 inches fully loaded  and outfitted by Voss with a deck  a small keel  three stubby masts  a cockpit for the helmsman  and a tiny cabin  the Tilikum was without doubt the oddest (and hence  the most newsworthy) craft ever to attempt a deep-sea voyage. Three years and several months later  on September 2  1904  Tilikum arrived in England after a voyage of 40 000 miles--a journey fraught with perilous and exotic adventures on both land and sea. Luxton abandoned the voyage in the South Seas  and his replacement was lost overboard in a storm. Voss carried on  and in 1912 - 13  while in Japan  he wrote The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss  the book that established him alongside Slocum as one of the greatest small-boat navigators of all time.This volume in The Sailors Classics restores in its entirety Captain Vosss account of his adventures in the Tilikum  together with the more noteworthy of the two remaining narratives in the original book  a truncated but epic voyage through a typhoon in the 19-foot yawl Sea Queen. In the words of series editor Jonathan Raban  \"to possess this book is to have at your elbow your own compact fount of growling sea-wisdom  the classic primer on small-boat handling under all imaginable conditions.\" For sailors and armchair adventurers alike  this book is an unforgettable read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652809646133,"sku":"ByrdShop_0071373330","price":136.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780071373333.jpg?v=1781852845","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/40000-miles-in-a-canoe-the-sailors-classics-3-9780071373333","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}