Sailing Alone around the World
A History, Biography, Classics book. ...as the day wore on I watched the birds all...
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...
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- Pages: 273 pages
- ISBN: 9780140437362 / 140437363
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I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else. Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly remembered that I could not swim. Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it. Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
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. I did not envy him at all when wild seas broke over him, and he spent exhausting nights reefing sails and untangling rigging. I have done a lot of sailing - thanks to... sailors In 1895 Joshua Slocum, forced from the sea when square riggers finally lost their place permanently to steamships, rebuilt a small oyster smack and began to sail it around the world. Radio was in its infancy and the world was not quite completely at war yet. He left Boston and tried to sail around Cape Horn three times. Failing this,...
