Sailing Alone Around the World - Softcover

Slocum, Captain Joshua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146621662X ISBN 13: 9781466216624

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

"Sailing Alone Around the World" is the famous sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his solo global circumnavigation aboard the ship Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.

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Review

Yes, Slocum's journey was 'epic' but it was also eccentric, unlikely and his unsurpassable action elegiac...The unaffected and quirky intimacy with which he writes will never be matched. You cannot do what he did any more.
- Matthew Parris

Boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once.
- Arthur Ransome

One of the all-time classic sailing narratives.
- Classic Boat

It is riveting stuff... A great read. --- The Nautical Magazine

About the Author

Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. An international bestseller, Sailing Alone Around the World was a critical success upon its publication in 1900. Slocum enjoyed widespread fame in the English-speaking world, including an invitation to speak at a dinner in honor of Mark Twain, until his disappearance while aboard his boat the Spray in 1909. At the time, it was believed his boat had been run down by a steamer or struck by a whale, however it was later determined that the Spray could also have easily capsized. Despite a lifetime at sea, Slocum never learned to swim. He was declared legally dead in 1924.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 146621662X
• ISBN 13: 9781466216624
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 124