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A classic tale of the world's first solo circumnavigation. Must read for all wanderers, sailors, and lovers of adventure.

"The classic of its kind." --Travel World
"One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure." --Sports Illustrated
"The finest single-handed adventure story yet written." --Seafarer
Challenged by an expert who said it couldn't... Read Full Overview

The first lone circumnavigation of the globe under sail

The first lone circumnavigation of the globe under sail

Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone.Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book... Read Full Overview

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

The first illustrated edition of the classic sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum, the first man to circumnavigate the globe alone Sailing Alone Around the World is Joshua Slocum's memoir about sailing alone around the world aboard his sloop, Spray . The book was an immediate success... Read Full Overview

In this annotated account of the world's first solo circumnavigation, Rod Scher's material helps us understand the world of 1895 so we can better appreciate author Joshua Slocum's accomplishment. If I could read only one boating book this year, I'd choose this one.

In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fundy on one side and the fertile Annapolis valley on the other. On the northern slope of the range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers,... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The most detailed and celebrated autobiographical account of a solo circumnavigation of the globe in the age of sail. Slocum, a naturalized American, designed, built, provisioned, and skippered his small sloop, the Spray, around the world in 1895-1898. The book chronicles every... Read Full Overview

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. It remains one of the major feats of single-handed voyaging, and has since been the inspiration for the many who have gone to sea in... Read Full Overview