Lone Voyager: The Extraordinary Adventures of Howard Blackburn, Hero Fisherman of Gloucester

by Joseph E. Garland

Release Date: July, 2000

Edition: Paperback

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Wonderful book about life at the turn of the century (1900)

Howard Blackburn was one cool dude! I mean the guy gets caught away from the mother ship and rows for 5 days to live but it costs him all his fingers and that's just the first two chapters! You've got him going off to the Yukon on a gold rush jaunt, a couple of single handed trips across the Atlantic. A circumnavigation of the Eastern US via the Great Lakes and the Misissippi River and around Florida. He just won't quit.

Anyway I bought the book because of the stories about dories, and was hooked by all the other adventures as well.

BTW there is a rowing race of 22 miles in open Atlantic called the "Blackburn Challange" The folks of Glouster loved him.

Lone Voyager

I found an old copy of this book and read it a year ago. An incredible true story. I`m glad to see that it is available in paperpback again.