| Title | Kurun
around the world |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kurun autour Du Monde |
| Author | Jacques-Yves Le Toumelin |
| Publication | Travel Book Club |
| Size | 300p |
| Language | ENG |
| ISBN | |
| Topics |
Travel--World--Circumnavigation Travel--Oceans Boating--Accounts of travel |
| Notes | The author performed a solo circumnavigation of the world from September 19, 1949 to July 7 1952 aboard his 13m 8.5t sailboat Kurun ("thunder" in Breton) which he had built at Croisic. During this voyage of almost three years, he made stopovers in the Canaries, Martinique, the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas Islands, New Guinea, Reunion, the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena. |