Slocum: 21 books

Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...

2 works of Joshua Slocum First man to sail single-handedly around the world, from Nova Scotia (1844-1909) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Joshua Slocum. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Sailing Alone Around The World - Voyage of the Liberdade

As the first person to ever complete a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, Joshua Slocum recounts his pioneering feat in Sailing Alone Around the World (1899), an engaging memoir of his adventures aboard the sloop Spray . An immediate success, the book has inspired countless later travelers....

Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer (1844-1909) This ebook presents «Voyage of the Liberdade», from Joshua Slocum. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- GREETING -03- VOYAGE OF THE LIBERDADE

Focusing on mid-century Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the remaking of political culture in the industrial city. Professor Fure-Slocum shows how two contending visions of the 1940s city - working-class politics and growth politics - fit together uneasily and were transformed amid a series of social...

Professor Slocum uses the concept of career as the central integrating idea for a wide range of information about contemporary work and occupations from current social science research, from historical sources, and from his own considerable personal experience and that of his students.This second...

La sera del 24 aprile 1895 Slocum salpa con lo Spray da Boston. Il suo obiettivo è compiere una circumnavigazione del globo in totale solitudine. Tre anni, due mesi e due giorni dopo, il 27 giugno del 1898, dopo una traversata di circa 46.000 miglia, Slocum getta nuovamente l’ancora nel porto di...

While scores of strategic management books have been written, many books fail to take into consideration the influences that shape and constrain managers’ ability to formulate and execute well-thought out strategies. Demystifying Your Business Strategy acknowledges and harnesses those influences,...

Heal wounds, soothe aches and pains, fix slow digestion, lose weight, and reduce stress. Be healthy! These are just some of the herbal remedies that will be covered in this book. Barb Slocum shows you how simple it is to make herbal remedies using simple and readily available plants. These mixtures...

Consider this court case: a defendant has traded a gun for drugs, and there is a criminal sentencing provision that stipulates an enhanced punishment if the defendant “uses” a firearm “during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.” Buying the drugs was obviously a crime—but can it...

Il diario di navigazione più letto e famoso, uno dei grandi classici della letteratura di viaggio, in una nuova traduzione e con un’introduzione inedita di Björn Larsson. Lo straordinario racconto dell’impresa di Joshua Slocum a bordo dello “Spray”: tre anni intorno al mondo, tra il 1895 e il 1898, per compiere la prima circumnavigazione del globo a vela e in solitario.

Best of TOC is a collection of essential posts from the last 12 months, selected from the TOC blog and a number of external sources.One of the mantras at Tools of Change is "fail forward fast," which is an alliterative way of encouraging experimentation. That's why we felt it appropriate to...

This book fills a gap in the growing academic discipline of food and agricultural tourism, offering the first multidisciplinary approach to food tourism and the role it plays in economic development, destination marketing, and gastronomic exploration. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the...

After two decades, data processing has finally, and probably forever, found its niche among civil engineering and construction (CEC) professionnals, through word processors, digitizing tables, management software, and increasingly via drawing software and computer-aided design (CAD), recently, robots...