By Joshua Slocum Table of Contents CHAPTER I A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities — Youthful fondness for the sea — Master of the ship Northern Light — Loss of the i — Return home from Brazil in the canoe Liberdade — The gift of a … [Read more...]
Saling Alone Around the World
The famous sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 1
By Joshua Slocum Buy The Book! A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities — Youthful fondness for the sea — Master of the ship Northern Light — Loss of the Aquidneck — Return home from Brazil in the canoe Liberdade — The gift of a "ship" — … [Read more...]
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 2
By Joshua Slocum Failure as a fisherman — A voyage around the world projected — From Boston to Gloucester — Fitting out for the ocean voyage — Half of a dory for a ship's boat — The run from Gloucester to Nova Scotia — A shaking up in home … [Read more...]
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 3
By Joshua Slocum Buy The Book! Good-by to the American coast — Off Sable Island in a fog — In the open sea — The man in the moon takes an interest in the voyage — The first fit of loneliness — The Spray encounters La Vaguisa — A bottle of … [Read more...]
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 4
By Joshua Slocum Squally weather in the Azores — High living — Delirious from cheese and plums — The pilot of the Pinta — At Gibraltar — Compliments exchanged with the British navy — A picnic on the Morocco shore. I set sail from Horta … [Read more...]
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 5
By Joshua Slocum Sailing from Gibraltar with the assistance of her Majesty's tug — The Spray's course changed from the Suez Canal to Cape Horn — Chased by a Moorish pirate — A comparison with Columbus — The Canary Islands-The Cape Verde Islands — … [Read more...]
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 6
By Joshua Slocum Departure from Rio de Janeiro — The Spray ashore on the sands of Uruguay — A narrow escape from shipwreck — The boy who found a sloop — The Spray floated but somewhat damaged — Courtesies from the British consul at Maldonado — … [Read more...]
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 7
By Joshua Slocum Weighing anchor at Buenos Aires — An outburst of emotion at the mouth of the Plate — Submerged by a great wave — A stormy entrance to the strait — Captain Samblich's happy gift of a bag of carpet-tacks — Off Cape Froward — … [Read more...]
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 8
By Joshua Slocum From Cape Pillar into the Pacific — Driven by a tempest toward Cape Horn — Captain Slocum's greatest sea adventure — Beaching the strait again by way of Cockburn Channel — Some savages find the carpet-tacks — Danger from … [Read more...]
Sailing Alone Around the World – Chapter 9
By Joshua Slocum Repairing the Spray's sails — Savages and an obstreperous anchor-A spider-fight — An encounter with Black Pedro — A visit to the steamship Colombia, — On the defensive against a fleet of canoes — A record of voyages through the … [Read more...]
