First edition. Photographic plate & full page illustration. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, title lettered to upper board, extremities a little worn. 160pp. Boston, Roberts, 1890.
In the wake of his disastrous voyage and wreck on the Aquidneck, Slocum took the unusual step of building a new craft to sail home in from what could be salvaged from the old ship. Departing Brazil on May 13, 1888, the Liberdade spent 55 days at sea returning home to Boston via Cape Roman and New York. Slocum departed on the day that Brazil abolished slavery and so his ship was thus named the Liberdade.
Seven years' later, in 1895, Slocum began the first solo circumnavigation in the Spray. The journey took him three years and his fame continues to this day.
Auction records list a single copy in 2009..
