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Originally Posted by VICROAMER
I nominate Joshua Slocum's "Sailing Alone Around the World".
Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone, the book is about his single-handed global circumnavigation.The PD copies I've found to date have lacked illustrations and formatting could be better. I read this book years ago and found it a good read well worth inclusion in the Library.
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Project Gutenberg have a good quality version with images, see
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6317
Edit: sorry, don't know how I missed the other replies saying exactly the same thing!