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Voyage of the Liberdade: A Journey from Brazil to America in a Hand-built Boat
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We prowled the auction sites, craigslist up the east coast, then across the gulf coast, then large cities up and down the Mississippi River and Tombigbee internal waterway system, Chicago Nautical Donations, Deltaville Maritime Museum (field of Dreams), Cooper Specialty Salvage, eBay, Certified Sales and the other auction outlets. After a week we w
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Il fallait subir ses hauts faits, l’entendre dérouler ses vues sur cette science dont il s’était fait le spécialiste : le naufrage. Il y a comme cela des napoléons du minuscule ; en général, ils finissent sur les bateaux, le seul endroit où ils peuvent régner sur des empires. Le sien mesurait dix-huit mètres.
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Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, was stranded from September 1704 to 2 February 1709 on one of the Juan Fernández islands off the coast of Chile.