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Around the world in a dugout canoe : the untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24995
- 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.
- 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 Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar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
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A sportsman's Eden : part II : a wilderness besieged
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11109
- Author
- Wonders, Karen
- Physical Description
- p.30-37
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Harvie Eric
- Hunting
- Luxton Norman
- Museums
- Natural history
- Outfitters trail guides packers
- Tourism
- Notes
- In The Beaver, vol.79:6 (December 1999 / January 2000)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Tilikum : Luxton's Pacific crossing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24949
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Luxton, Norman Kenny
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta: Summerthought Publishing
- Edition
- 3rd
- Call Number
- 02.1 L97 2019 copy 1
- 02.1 L97 2019 copy 2
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- Author
- Luxton, Norman Kenny
- Responsibility
- edited by Eleanor Georgina Luxton
- forward by Harvey Locke
- Edition
- 3rd
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta: Summerthought Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 166 p. : ill., maps, ports
- Abstract
- Pertains the Pacific Ocean journey of Norman Luxton and John Claus Voss aboard the Tilikum
- ISBN
- 9781926983370
- Accession Number
- 2019.89
- Call Number
- 02.1 L97 2019 copy 1
- 02.1 L97 2019 copy 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to the Eleanor Luxton Historical Foundation website
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