Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

Sailing Alone Around the World

by Joshua Slocum (1844-1909)

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km).
In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, “boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once.”
(Summary by Alan Chant and Wikipedia)

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• Chapter 02 - 00:19:38
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• Chapter 08 - 00:19:14
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• Chapter 09 - 00:24:12
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• Chapter 21 - 00:15:07
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• Chapter 22 - Appendix - 00:15:37
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