A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam'
Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

A popular account of the first circumnavigation by a steam yacht, describing exotic locations and the yacht's domestic life.

Annie Brassey (Author)

9781108020893, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 October 2010

560 pages, 116 b/w illus. 5 maps 1 table
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.7 kg

Annie, Lady Brassey (1839–1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her family. Her husband was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty who made many ocean voyages by steam yacht to test this new technology. Annie Brassey's description of these travels led to her becoming a best-selling author. This volume, first published in 1878, contains her lively and detailed account of her family's circumnavigation in the Sunbeam, the first circumnavigation of the world by a steam yacht. Written in the form of a diary and based on letters sent to her father, this volume mixes exotic descriptions with lively accounts of domestic life on board, and was immensely popular. The book illustrates the attitudes of middle-class Victorians to exotic locations and cultures. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=brasan

1. Farewell to Old England
2. Madeira, Teneriffe, and Cape de Verde Islands
3. Palma to Rio de Janeiro
4. Rio de Janeiro
5. The River Plate
6. Life on the pampas
7. More about the Argentine Republic
8. River Plate to Sandy Point, Straits of Magellan
9. Sandy Point to Lota Bay
10. Chili
11. Santiago and Valparaiso
12. Valparaiso to Tahiti
13. The South Sea Islands
14. At Tahiti
15. Tahiti to Sandwich Islands
16. Hawaiian sports
17. Honolulu
18. Honolulu to Yokohama
19. Yokohama
20. Kioto, late Miaco
21. The Inland Sea
22. To Canton up the Pearl River
23. From Macao to Singapore
24. Singapore
25. Ceylon
26. To Aden
27. Via Suez Canal
28. 'Home'
Appendix.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]