VOSS John
BY SAILBOAT ACROSS THE OCEANS
Translated from English
Tadeusz Fonferko
Warsaw 1933, Główna Księgarnia Wojskowa, pp. xix, 343, format 14x20cm
With a portrait of the author in front of the title page, in the text also 3 plates with photographs of the voyage, above publisher's folded map of the voyage.
The book had post-war editions in 1958 and 1982.
John Clauss Voss a.k.a. Jack 1858-1922 German-Canadian sailor. Initially a carpenter, then a sailor, then a sailor. Best known for his voyage in a modified chiselled dugout canoe named Tilikum begun in 1901 with his friend Norman Luxton and completed alone in 1904, as recounted in this account.
HARDCOVER SEMI-CANVAS BOOKBINDING OF THE PERIOD, GILT LETTERING ON THE SPINE.
PUBLISHER'S RETAINED COVER
BDB- condition.
