Sailing Alone: Around the World (Coastline Collection)

Slocum, Joshua; Fogarty, Thomas; Varian, George; Slocum, Capt. Joshua

ISBN 10: 1883684064 / ISBN 13: 9781883684068

Published by Peninsula Press, Martha's Vineyard, 1997

About this Item

First Edition stated, 2nd printing; #0178 of 2000 limited/hand-numbered edition w/embossed seal on title page. 100th Anniversary Edition. Fine and unmarked book in Near Fine unclipped DJ w/sunned spine and tiny cuts top rear panel. xxiv, 215pp inc. Appendix, Further Reading, Index; illustrated in drawings by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. 240 p.

Seller Inventory # 040650

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sailing Alone: Around the World (Coastline Collection)
• Publisher: Peninsula Press, Martha's Vineyard
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1883684064
• ISBN 13: 9781883684068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition (stated).
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

Slocum's account of his epic round-the-world voyage in 1895 in the 37-foot sloop "Spray", remains as one of the major feats of single-handed voyaging. Starting from Boston on April 24th, 1895, Slocum crossed the Atlantic to Gibraltar only to discover that he would have to change his route. He then crossed the Atlantic a second time, following Magellan's course southwestwards, sailed through the Strait, traversed the Pacific and Indian Oceans, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and crossing the Atlantic the third time, dropped anchor at Newport, Rhode Island on June 27th 1898. He had cruised some 46,000 miles entirely by sail and entirely alone - much of the time with the wheel lashed while he sat below reading or cooking or mending his clothes.

Review

"A literate and absorbing yarn. . . His story is a convincing tale of the intelligence, skill and fortitude that drove a master navigator."