Sailing Alone Around the World (Stanfords Travel Classics) By J .9781909612600

Name: Sailing Alone Around the World (Stanfords Travel Classics) By J .9781909612600
Brand: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd

John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd

Sailing Alone Around the WorldAuthor(s): Joshua Slocum\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781909612600, 978-1909612600\nSynopsis\nJoshsua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of 14 and for the next 35 years he sailed the world holding every shipboard rank. When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. Not one for retiring to earthly pastures, Slocum rebuilt a hundred- year-old sloop and set off for Boston in 1895 on the first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. For more than three years Slocum battled stormy seas, attacks from raiders and pirates and, of course, loneliness. He crossed the Atlantic no fewer than three times, spent weeks thrashing against the elements around Cape Horn, and found shelter in numerous exotic harbours. Sailing Alone around the Worl.