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First published in 1900 Joshua Slocums autobiographical account of his solotrip around the world is one of the most remarkable and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard thethirtysix foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895 Captain Slocum went on tojoin the ranks of the worlds great circumnavigators Magellan Drake andCook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts Slocum would outdothem all his threeyear solo voyage of more than 46000 miles remainsunmatched in maritime history for courage skill and determination.SailingAlone Around the World recounts Slocums wonderful adventures hairraisingencounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Tierra del Fuegoraging tempests and treacherous coral reefs flying fish for breakfast in thePacific and a hilarious visit with Henry Dr. Livingstone I presume?Stanley in South Africa.A century later Slocums incomparable book endures asof the greatest narratives of adventure ever written. «
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