Captain J C Voss (4 results)
- Softcover
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, CanadaPurpora Books
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine Plus. New Edition. Facsimile of the original 1913 edition with a new introduction by Commander Frederick E. Grub. 326 pages with index and a few B&W illustrations from photos.
- Softcover
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, AustraliaLawrence Jones Books
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. xix, 326pp, index, maps. Or card covers. Small bump at head of spine. True story of ocean voyaging. In 1898 Capt Voss set sail in the 35-foot sloop Xora from British Columbia for the Cocos Islands in search of buried treasure, ending in Callao, Peru. In 1901 there followed a 40000 mile v…oyage across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans lasting over three years, in a 38-foot dugout canoe. His adventures in Sea Queen in 1911 equal the best true seafaring stories including an account of being caught in a typhoon off the coast of Japan. Size: 8vo.
Language: English
Published by Geiser & Gilbert, Tokyo, Japan, 1913
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Sheafe Street Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.Sheafe Street Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red boards with gilt lettering on front. Spine is dark with age with very faded gilt lettering. Top quarter inch of spine is worn off. 4 droplets of water stain the front board. Tissue protected frontispiece is loose. Color map of Cocos Island and color fold out tract chart pre…sent. Chart slightly foxed. Thirteen black and white photos and illustrations. Binding is good, no cracks to the boards.
Published by Japan Herald Press, Yokohama, 1913
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, AustraliaMuir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books]
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Add to basketCloth Boards. 1st Edition. First edition. Royal octavo, original red cloth boards with title and a vignette decoration stamped in gilt to upper board, title in gilt to spine with small gilt decoration foot of spine, frontis portrait plate of the author (with tissue guard), folding colour map showing Voss's voyages, colour map of… Cocos Island, b&w plates (including photographs of the "Xora", the "Tilikum" and the "Sea Queen" under sail), pp 394. Signed to the front free endpaper, "From the author, J.C. Voss, at sea, June 28th 1914". Some fraying to the head and foot of the spine. Very good condition. Scarce thus, both as the first edition and for the signature. John Voss (1858 - 1922) was a German-Canadian sailor, best known for sailing around the world in a modified dug-out canoe he bought in Vancouver Island (along with a human skull) and named "Tilikum" ("person" or "people" in Chinook Jargon). "The saga of Capt. J. C. Voss still is unparalleled. Between 1901-1904, he sailed nearly around the world in a rebuilt Native American dugout canoe, making a voyage of 40,000 miles. He established a small-boat record in sail never approached since then." (Saltwater People Historical Society). "Venturesome Voyages" describes his various adventures, mainly in the "Tilikum": the final chapter describes sailing the "Sea Queen" (a 25 foot yawl from Yokohama) in a typhoon. For some years Voss was believed to have been lost at sea after he sailed away again from Yokohama in the "Sea Queen" in June 1913: had this signature, "at sea" in 1914, been seen there would have been less surprise when he turned up in California. A unique copy of this first edition, which is in itself scarce.
