Even Today A Voyage Of Thirty-Six Thousand Miles At Sea,

is a major undertaking,

but even more so when the voyage took place in the late 1800s, 

the book is titled 1879 A Voyage in the Sunbeam, by Mrs Brassey,

the book describes the family's travels aboard the Sunbeam, a luxury yacht which first set sail in 1874,

the work is a profusely illustrated bestselling work, detailing the author's eleven months spent aboard the Sunbeam, complete with a colour folding map,

they travelled to Rio de Janeiro around South American, then made for Tahiti, Hawaii, Japan, China, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Alexandria, Gibraltar and Portugal,

this is a new edition of Annie Brassey's popular work, which narrates their travels around the world between 1876 and 1877 along with forty-three others, (husband and four children), crew (38 members), two dogs, three birds, and a "charming Persian kitten" (who disappeared early into the voyage), many editions of the work were produced, and it was translated into at least five languages. She followed this work up with a number of other works describing their voyaging on the Sunbeam, Annie Brassey (1839-1883) perished aboard her final voyage; she was buried at sea, published in London by Longmans, Green and Co. size: 8" by 6, I can imagine it will be a fabulous read, yours for £170.00 from Rooke Books, would I like to go on that cruise? You Bet!