Sailing Alone Around the World

Slocum, Captain Joshua; Slocum, Joshua; Fogarty, Thomas; Varian, George

ISBN 10: 0967482607 / ISBN 13: 9780967482606

Published by Regatta Press, 1999

About this Item

Hardcover. NOT Ex-library. Very good condition. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona.

Seller Inventory # 529UHD0009MQ

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sailing Alone Around the World
• Publisher: Regatta Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967482607
• ISBN 13: 9780967482606
• Condition: VeryGood

About this title

Synopsis

The most detailed and celebrated autobiographical account of a solo circumnavigation of the globe in the age of sail. Slocum, a naturalized American, designed, built, provisioned, and skippered his small sloop, the Spray, around the world in 1895-1898. The book chronicles every facet of the voyage from technical specifics of the ship and supplies to lively accounts of the people and places Slocum visited along his 46,000-mile journey. Sailing Alone was, in its own time, a very popular book, and it remains so today, having been reprinted many times throughout the 20th century. However, this is the first high-quality facsimile reproduction to date, faithfully reproducing the original text, art, and striking cover of the rare first edition.

Review

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