Sailing Alone Around the World

Slocum, Joshua/ Fogarty, Thomas/ Varian, George

ISBN 10: 154266103X / ISBN 13: 9781542661034

Published by Createspace Independent Pub, 2017

About this Item

illustrated edition. 160 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.37 inches. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sailing Alone Around the World
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 154266103X
• ISBN 13: 9781542661034
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Fogarty, Thomas; Varian, George
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Sailing Alone Around the World (1900) is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop 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.Joshua Slocum (1844–1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. Seaman and adventurer, wrote a book about his journey Sailing Alone Around the World. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray.There was considerable international interest in Slocum's journey, particularly once he had entered the Pacific; he was awaited at most of his ports of call, and gave lectures and lantern-slide shows to well-filled halls.The trip itinerary went as follows: Fairhaven, Boston, Gloucester, Nova Scotia, Azores, Gibraltar, (Morocco), Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Maldonado, Montevideo, Strait of Magellan, Cockburn Channel, Port Angosto, Juan Fernandez, Marquesas, Samoa, Fiji, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Cooktown, Christmas Island, Keeling Cocos, Rodrigues, Mauritius, Durban, Cape Town, (Transvaal), St Helena, Ascension Island, Devil's Island, Trinidad, Grenada, Newport, Fairhaven.

Review

"Surely one of the all-time classic sailing narratives, this is more than just an account of a fascinating and often arduous journey, it has also given rise to a mythology all its own." -- Classic Boat "Classic Boat"

"Captain Slocum's place in history is as secure as Adams's. So long as men sailed the seas they will be interested in that first single-handed circumnavigation and will wish to read the book....There is not one single moment at which the ancient mariner is in danger of losing the attention of his audience. And this is true not only of the first, but, as I well know, of the twentieth or maybe thirtieth time of reading."--Arthur Ransome

Captain Slocum's place in history is as secure as Adams's. So long as men sailed the seas they will be interested in that first single-handed circumnavigation and will wish to read the book....There is not one single moment at which the ancient mariner is in danger of losing the attention of his audience. And this is true not only of the first, but, as I well know, of the twentieth or maybe thirtieth time of reading.--Arthur Ransome