It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, 'boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once'.

In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. 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 tempests and treacherous coral reefs flying fish for breakfast in the Pacific and a hilarious visit with fellow explorer Henry Stanley in South Africa. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on Jhaving circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km). On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. On April 24, 1895, he departed Boston in his 37-foot sloop, Spray, and sailed around the world, returning to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898.This remarkable achievement made Slocum the most famous North American sailor of all time. After more than three years, Slocum returned in his gaff rigged sloop oyster boat named Spray having circumnavigated the world, a distance of more than 74,000 km. Download cover art Download CD case insert Sailing Alone Around The World Captain Joshua Slocum (18441909) was the first person to circle the globe alone entirely by sea. Joshua Slocum (1844-1909) On June 27, 1898, the first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Brier Island, Nova Scotia.

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