Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his singlehanded global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.Captain Slocum was a highly experienced navigator and ship owner. He rebuilt and refitted the derelict sloop Spray in a seaside pasture at Fairhaven, Massachusetts, over 13 months between early 1893 and 1894.Between 24 April 1895 and 27 June 1898, Slocum, aboard the Spray, crossed the Atlantic twice (to Gibraltar and back to South America), negotiated the Strait of Magellan, and crossed the Pacific. He also visited Australia and South Africa before crossing the Atlantic (for the third time) to return to Massachusetts after a journey of 46,000 miles. Slocum attracted considerable international interest by his journey, particularly once he had entered the Pacific. He was awaited at most of his ports of call, and gave lectures and lanternslide shows to wellfilled halls. His journal was first published in installments before being issued in book form in 1900. The book was lavishly illustrated.Slocum tells his story as a sequence of adventures, understating his own part and giving credit always to the Spray. He invents a crewmember, a supposed pilot of Columbus Pinta, to take credit for the safety of the vessel while he sleeps.The trip itinerary was as follows Fairhaven, Boston,...

Binding: Paperback;156 pages; Publisher: Bibliotech Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 319.13 g; Dimensions: N/A

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