Sailing alone around the world: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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Joshua Slocum, one of the most famous of American sea captains, really was the first to single-handedly circumnavigate the world. The epitome of Yankee independence, he had risen from a seaman to the captain of his own ship. Marooned in Brazil, he built a "canoe" in which he returned to America (see The Voyage of the Liberdade). At loose ends at fifty-one, he was offered an old oyster boat which he rebuilt into the 37' Spray and in 1895 he took off from Boston for the Straits of Gibraltar. He is a captivating writer as well; observant, humorous, and evocative: "For, one day, well off the Patagonian coast, while the sloop was reaching under short sail, a tremendous wave, the culmination, it seemed, of many waves, rolled down upon her in a storm, roaring as it came. I had only a moment to get all sail down and myself up on the peak halliards, out of danger, when I saw the mighty crest towe
Quick facts about Sailing alone around the world
- Title: Sailing alone around the world
- Author: Joshua Slocum
- First published: 1800
- Genre: spray (sloop), single-handed sailing, sailing
- OpenLibrary ID: OL59979W
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Joshua Slocum, one of the most famous of American sea captains, really was the first to single-handedly circumnavigate the world.
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Sailing alone around the world was first published in 1800.
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