A Voyage in the Sunbeam

Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

Dozens of $50 million-plus superyachts cruise the high seas in the ultimate expression of 21st-century wealth, but the yachting life wasn’t so posh in 1876 when the 175-foot Sunbeam (steam and sail powered) set sail from the Isle of Wight on a forty-six-week, 35,000-mile circumnavigation with Thomas and Annie Brassey, their four children, and a crew of thirty-seven. Madeira, Rio, Chile, Tahiti, Hawaii, Japan, the Suez Canal—and Annie got her pen and kept it busy in this delightful sea tale of journal entries, originally published in 1878.

Reviewed by Matt Sutherland

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