For 20 years tough, resourceful, sailing skipper Slocum navigated
the oceans of the world, owned ships, built ships, survived mutiny
and shipwrecks, until a last ill-fated voyage on which his crew
were decimated by smallpox and his ship, with all his wealth, was
lost on a South American sand bar. Back home, with no ship and
little money a friend, perhaps as a joke, offered Slocum a ship. He
found her in a field, half rotten, with gaps in her decks and grass
growing through the hull. On her transom, in peeling paint, could
just be read the name Spray. It is the story of this ship, how he
rebuilt her and in 1895 became the first man to voyage singlehanded
around the world that is told in this book. The final sentence:
'The days passed happily with me wherever my ship sailed'
epitomizes the genial good humour with which the many adventures on
land and sea are recounted. This is the special quality that brings
readers back to enjoy Slocum's book again and again. (Kirkus UK)
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 tempests and treacherous coral reefs; flying fish for breakfast in the Pacific; and a hilarious visit with fellow explorer Henry Stanley in South Africa. A century later, Slocum’s incomparable book endures as one of the greatest narratives of adventure ever written.
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