![]() By the time Captain Slocum had laid the deck of his aptly named schooner, the “Spray”, in Chapter One and launched her into her natural element, I was completely hooked and my admiration grew throughout the book. This remarkable achievement made Slocum the most famous North American sailor of all time.Īs a long-time consumer of recorded books, I’d rate Sailing Alone Around the World as one of the most enjoyable examples of the genre that I’ve ever encountered. His writing style is fast paced, witty, and exhilarating, an absorbing match to his harrowing adventures - adventures that included being chased by Moorish pirates off Gibraltar escaping a fleet of hostile canoes being submerged by a great wave off the Patagonian coast an encounter with Black Pedro, “the worst murderer in Tierra del Fuego” and foiling a nocturnal attack by savages by strewing carpet tacks on the Spray’s deck.Ĭaptain Joshua Slocum (1844–1909) was the first person to circle the globe alone entirely by sea. ![]() ![]() Whether Slocum was more accomplished as a writer or sailor is hard to say. This is Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage of the Spray. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. ![]()
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