40,000 Miles in a Canoe (Paperback or Softback)

Voss, John C.

ISBN 10: 0071414266 / ISBN 13: 9780071414265

Published by International Marine Publishing 4/30/2003, 2003

40,000 Miles in a Canoe. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780071414265

Synopsis:

"The Sailor's Classics" library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sail. It tells the incredible story of Captain John C. Voss, who, in 1904, completed a three-year journey across three oceans in a Native American dugout canoe converted to sail.

About the Author: Captain John Claus Voss said of himself, My seafaring life commenced in 1877, when I was quite a young man, and was spent in large sailing vessels, during which period I have filled all sorts of positions from deck boy up to master. It is unclear what year Voss was bornpossibly 1861, possibly earlierbut in the 1890s he left the sea for residence in Victoria, British Columbia, where he was listed as proprietor or co-proprietor of several hotels by 1895. By that time he was married with two sons and a daughter. His career in small boats began in 1897. His greatest voyage, in the Indian war canoe Tilikum, began in May 1901. After reaching England in 1904, Voss joined an expedition to Equador to search for gold, finally returning to Victoria in March 1906, by which time his marriage had ended and his former wife had moved to Oregon with the younger children. He married again in the spring of 1906, but his bride died in August of that same year. Voss went back to sea commanding sealing schooners until 1911, when sealing was banned by international treaty. Finding himself in Japan, he undertook the voyage of the Sea Queen described in this book. Later he fitted out yet another small vessel and vanished from Yokohama into the Pacific. Many presumed that he had drowned, but new evidence suggests that he spent his last years in the small inland California town of Tracy, where he drove a Model T jitney, or taxi, and is photographed with his daughter in 1920. He evidently died in Tracy in 1922. HOMETOWN: Victoria, British Columbia (deceased)

Bibliographic Details

Title: 40,000 Miles in a Canoe (Paperback or ...
Publisher: International Marine Publishing 4/30/2003
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Paperback or Softback
Condition: New
Book Type: Book