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Around the world in a dugout canoe : the untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
MacFarlane, John
Salmon, Lynn J.
Publisher
Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
Call Number
02.1 M11a
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Author
MacFarlane, John
Salmon, Lynn J.
Responsibility
John M, MacFarlane
Lynn J. Salmon
Publisher
Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
268 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Tourism
Luxton, Norman
Voss, John Claus
Canoeing
Sailing
Abstract
"For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage--and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment--is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
John Claus Voss -- Treasure Hunting in the Xora -- Norman Kenny Luxton -- “Out-Slocuming” Joshua Slocum -- Preparing to Voyage -- Across the Pacific -- Penrhyn Island and Beyond -- The Mate Walter Louis Begent -- Australia -- New Zealand -- South Africa -- Brazil and up the Atlantic to England -- Repatriation to Victoria -- The Sea Queen, the Tilikum II and Voss’s Last Years.
Notes
Contains materials from the Luxton family fonds from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library
Signed by John MacFarlane
ISBN
9781550178791
Accession Number
2019.106
Call Number
02.1 M11a
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Link to publication on publisher's website
Websites
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
MacFarlane, John
Call Number
02.1 L97m Pam
Author
MacFarlane, John
Physical Description
p.4-10 : ill., map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Boating
Luxton, Norman
Voss, John Claus
Notes
In Resolution / Maritime Museum of British Columbia, no.23, summer 1991
Accession Number
5972
Call Number
02.1 L97m Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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