Sailing Alone Around the World
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas - the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one…
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The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas - the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable - and entertaining - travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six-foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world's great circumnavigators - Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them all: his three-year solo voyage of more than 46,000 miles remains unmatched in maritime history for its courage, skill, and determination.Sailing Alone around the World recounts Slocum's wonderful adventures: hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Tierra del Fuego; raging
Sailing Alone Around the World
Sailing Alone Around the World
Around the World
Around the World