Books with title The World Around Us! Smelling

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first. At the age of eight I had already been afloat along with other boys on the bay, with chances greatly in favor of being drowned. When a lad I filled the important post of cook on a fishing-schooner; but I was not long in the galley, for the crew mutinied at the appearance of my first duff, and "chucked me out" before I had a chance to shine as a culinary artist. The next step toward the goal of happiness found me before the mast in a full-rigged ship bound on a foreign voyage. Thus I came "over the bows," and not in through the cabin windows, to the command of a ship. My best command was that of the magnificent ship Northern Light, of which I was part-owner. I had a right to be proud of her, for at that time—in the eighties—she was the finest American sailing-vessel afloat. Afterward I owned and sailed theAquidneck, a little bark which of all man's handiwork seemed to me the nearest to perfection of beauty, and which in speed, when the wind blew, asked no favors of steamers, I had been nearly twenty years a shipmaster when I quit her deck on the coast of Brazil, where she was wrecked. My home voyage to New York with my family was made in the canoe Liberdade, without accident. My voyages were all foreign. I sailed as freighter and trader principally to China, Australia, and Japan, and among the Spice Islands. Mine was not the sort of life to make one long to coil up one's ropes on land, the customs and ways of which I had finally almost forgotten. And so when times for freighters got bad, as at last they did, and I tried to quit the sea, what was there for an old sailor to do? I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. Next in attractiveness, after seafaring, came ship-building.

In the 16th century there were many people who didnt know much about the world. They knew that planet Earth was sphere-shaped, but nobody had ever sailed right around the globe. There were still many oceans to explore and new countries and trade routes to discover. Adventurers were keen to sail in new directions to reach the other side of the world.

Challenged by an expert who said it couldn't be done, Joshua Slocum, an indomitable New England sea captain, set out in April of 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. 46,000 miles and a little over 3 years later, the proof was complete: Captain Slocum had performed the epic "first" single-handedly in a trusty 34-foot sloop called the "Spray." This is Slocum's own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage.

Considered by many specialists as one of the most remarkable sailing books ever, Sailing Alone Around the World narrates the adventures and sensational encounters the author, captain Joshua Slocum, experienced during his three years long sailing voyage around the world. This took him from Fairhaven to Boston, Gibraltar, the Magellan Strait, Cockburn Channel, Cape Town, Grenada, Newport and back to Fairhaven. He also visited the cities of Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Sydney, Melbourne and many others, meeting prominent personalities and having interesting dialogues with them. However, captain Slocum's voyage was not a joyride, as he also had to face terrible storms at sea, using all his navigation skills to avoid the deceiving reefs that would damage the bottom of his ship. What really makes the trip and the book extraordinary is the fact that no one, not even a single crew member, accompanied the brave navigator, so he had to do everything by himself. This is the main reason why, on every occasion, Slocum gives his ship almost all the credit for getting out of trouble. Besides being a detailed journal of the voyage, abounding in fascinating descriptions of the exotic places the author visits and presenting the more or less eccentric people he meets, the book also has great documentary value, as numerous sailing techniques considered innovative for the time when it was written are described in it. More than that, the floor plans of the Spray, the ship captain Slocum embarked on for the sensational trip on the world's oceans and seas, are also included in the book. "I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me"

Around the World in Seventy Years is a detailed narrative of the exciting ministry experiences that have followed author Betty Smith's prayer of availability to God. Since 1985, she has taken sixteen mission trips to places as close as New York City and Mexico and as far away as China and Siberia. As a channel for the flow of God's love, she has received beauty for ashes, according to the promise of Isaiah 61: 3.