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  • A Voyage in the ’Sunbeam’, Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
    Annie Brassey
    A Voyage in the ’Sunbeam’, Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It’s a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, a...
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    22,30 €

  • The Last Voyage 1887
    Annie Brassey
    Annie Brassey’s The Last Voyage 1887 is a lucid witness to the rhythms of life at sea in the 1880s. Voyage and memory meet here. A Victorian travel memoir and maritime adventure book in one, it reads as a clear-eyed sea voyage narrative: plainspoken, observant and alive to both routine and unexpected beauty. Brassey’s prose favours small, telling detail and human scale; episodi...
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    30,83 €

  • Japan by Yacht
    Annie Brassey
    Annie Brassey (1839–87), was perhaps the first Western woman to arrive in Japan on her own family yacht, the Sunbeam. Having departed from Chatham with her family, friends, and crew, she and her husband, the English Member of Parliament Thomas Brassey, had already circumnavigated half the globe when they arrived in Japanese waters towards the end of January 1877.Over the next w...
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    11,98 €

  • A Voyage in the Sunbeam
    Annie Brassey
    Anna ''Annie'' Brassey (née Allnutt), Baroness Brassey (1839 - 1887) was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months was published in 1878. As a young woman, she also suffered from severe burns when she stood too close to a fireplace and her skirt caught fire; it took six months for her to recover.In 186...
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    40,99 €

  • The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam
    Annie Brassey
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    87,50 €

  • Sunshine and Storm in the East
    Annie Brassey
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    79,18 €

  • In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties
    Annie Brassey
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    87,45 €

  • A Voyage in the ’Sunbeam’
    Annie Brassey
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    87,52 €

  • A Voyage In The Sunbeam
    Annie Brassey
    ''A Voyage in the Sunbeam: Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months'' is a travel memoir written by Annie Brassey and published in 1878. The book details the author’s journey aboard the Sunbeam, a yacht owned by her husband, Thomas Brassey, as they circumnavigate the globe over the course of eleven months. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into life aboard a yacht in the l...
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    48,09 €

  • Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople
    Lady Annie Brassey
    In this diary recording two voyages to Constantinople, Lady Annie Brassey demonstrates her keen eye for human interest and narrative detail. The modern reader will glimpse natural wonders and cultural distinctions of Portuagal, Spain, Moroco, Italy, Greece, and Turkey during the mid-1870s. 3 ...
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    152,97 €