Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. It surely encouraged us to learn to sail!

Slocum's personal words, illustrations and maps combine to create a literary gem that serves as a memoir of adventure travel, a motivational and spiritual guide, and a lesson in modesty and resilience. His journey to become a ship commander started at the age of fourteen when he joined a fishing schooner to escape from the demanding work regime in his father’s the boot-making business. He is a unique character, and if you grew up on Cape Cod, or have ties to Nova Scotia, the story should hold special interest because of Slocum's origins. One of these items ships sooner than the other. It is fascinating to look at the ingredients that made this pioneering voyage possible. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. I first read this many years ago (about 40+ years ago!) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. While one article reported the replica Spray and Carr's announcement, there is no documented evidence that he made a circumnavigation. A World of My Own: The First Ever Non-stop Solo Round the World Voyage, Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Joshua Slocum was the first to sail solo around the world. He was not only a skilled sailor with 30 years experience on the sea, but an excellent writer, as this book attests. Facing the travails of the sea alone. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. —Sports Illustrated"The finest single-handed adventure story yet written." There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists.

I read it while still in my teens. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone.

The mountain of water submerged my vessel. I would recommend this book to anyone, but to those with an adventurous soul, this book will change the way you think about moving through the world. 100 Life Goals Around the World, The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra, Becoming a Sailor: A Singlehand Sailing Adventure, Islands on the Fringe: A Year of Micronesian Waves and Wanderers. His almost matter-of-fact descriptions of hazardous episodes and his colorful, often witty observations make this book perhaps the most delightful and absorbing adventure tale in history. And take it with you if you are!

His journal was first published in installments before being issued in book form in 1900. I'm not going to say much about this book because I don't have enough superlatives. I explained that she was all water-tight and all compartment. Sailing alone around the world is still one of the pinnacles of human achievement.

He tells the state of the world from a worldly perspective, in other words he's seen both sides of the globe and he knows the truth. With a lot of help, I raised it, refurbished it, and lived on it for the next eighteen months. It also deals with the tragic death of his first wife, later his son, something he never overcomes and in his later years is probably still a motivating force for him to fly solo in the end. This was, in my mind, so much easier to read (and enjoy) than either. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode … The epitome of Yankee independence, he had risen from a seaman to the captain of his own ship. Free shipping . Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2019. Sailing Alone Around the World Captain Joshua Slocum Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian New York: The Century Company, 1900 TO THE ONE WHO SAID: "THE 'Spray' WILL COME BACK." Welcome back. At eighteen, when other teens were looking for their first car, I bought (from an eighty-two year old widow) my first yacht, a 1928, wooden hulled A Class gaff rigged sloop that had sunk at its moorings during a storm. That is the mark of a great book to me. Margaret Atwood’s Big Sequel Answers Readers’ Questions.

His journey was sprinkled with a number of tough episodes, including encounters with pirates off the coast of Gibraltar and with unfriendly Fuegians in Tierra del Fuego. In the case of the swordfish, I ventured to say that 'the first thing would be to secure the sword. So, all in all, I thoroughly recommend Slocum's uplifting book. Joshua Slocum, one of the most famous of American sea captains, really was the first to single-handedly circumnavigate the world. As an example of Slocum’s resilience, he recovered from the loss by building a new boat, the Liberdade (‘freedom’ in Portuguese) using local materials and workers. This is the relation of a one-man journey literally around the world on the surface of the ocean before the existence of radios and other nice, self-preserving gadgets. Joshua Slocum, a New England sea captain, in his retirement built a sloop that he named the Spray. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2013. Sailing Alone Around the World is a firsthand autobiographical story of Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail singlehandedly around the world. This edition (complete with all of the original Thomas Fogarty illustrations) of Captain Slocum's story will prove as enjoyable and thrilling to the present generation of Americans as it was to our fathers and grandfathers. Even though I've never lived within 400 miles of an ocean, I once entertained the notion of setting off in a sailboat, my own man, as free as the wind. Contents . Book review: Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum. Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time.

Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Because this is the ultimate travel book. He looked me over carefully, and said, "'What an example of patience! One person's adventure is not necessarily another person's adventure.

Their fourth boat, the Aquidneck, was wrecked in Brazil in 1887. Excellent vintage: The First Solo Circumnavigator Tells His Story, Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2014. Free shipping . Not that he thereafter lived that long to enjoy his fame or fortune, dying mysteriously in his mid-60s in 1909 on his way from the USA to the West Indies in his famous sailboat, Spray. "He met determined pirates in Tierra del Fuego:"I was not for letting on that I was alone, and so I stepped into the cabin, and, passing through the hold, came out at the fore-scuttle, changing my clothes as I went along. How I envied Captain Slocum when he described days spent in peaceful reading, his bark gliding over sunlit seas, always bang on course - even after hundreds of miles. (see Cruise of the Snark, available from The Narrative Press) Discover for yourself why everyone reads this book (called a sailor's Walden) -- even if you're not planning a solo sailing trip. He spent three years and two months sailing. A family faces shipwreck plus threats from pirates, gun boats, mines and thieves, scurvy and starvation in a journey that tests them to their limits.

This is Slocum's own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage.Slocum writes in a fast-paced, exhilarating style. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Two people with one vision – the unique travel diary of a couple who decided to live their dream and sail with a catamaran boat around the world. The book was lavishly illustrated. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey 'Sailing Alone Around the World', which became an international best-seller. Radio was in its infancy and the world was not quite completely at war yet. 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. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2018. And no one hereafter ever will. I finished this book a couple of weeks ago, and I still think about it daily. My wife liked the book as much as I did, perhaps even more. After sailing south and through the Strait of Magellan, Slocum continued west across the Pacific and Indian Oceans to the Cape of Good Hope. On his first leg, from Cape Sable to the Azores, he manages to convey the sense of what it was like Out There: a world apart, a world of endless sky and wind, of heaving waves, sea and sky and nothing more. This little book is his account of the journey. After leaving the Navy I bought a Roberts Ketch and lived and sailed on it for twelve years. And also his experiences with the locals on all the islands and capes.

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