The First lone Circumnavigation of the Globe under Sail This book is widely regarded a classic of Sailing literature because it is an Account written by the sailor who made the First Solo navigation of the Globe under sail.
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This book, detailing his epic voyage and many adventures, was written shortly after his return, was serialised in magazines and became a rapid bestseller, earning glowing encomiums from many notably figures, especially from highly regarded authors of the time, including Arthur Ransome and Mark Twain, which elevated Joshua Slocum to international fame.
His triumphant return to America went virtually unnoticed-because the newspapers were focussed on the recent outbreak of war between Spain and America.
His circumnavigation, which took three years to complete, covered a distance of some 46,000 miles.
Navigating mainly without using his chronometer and only by \'dead-reckoning\' Slocum sailed \'Spray\' without actually touching the helm.
In 1895 he set Sail from America in \'Spray, \' a 36\' 9\'\' gaff rigged sloop oyster boat he had rebuilt himself.
An unquenchable spirit of adventure propelled him through many voyages and hairsbreadth escapes from the forces of nature and pirates.
A biography of Joshua Slocum would make riveting reading in its own right, for inherent in him were all the attributes of the ideal seaman of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
The First lone Circumnavigation of the Globe under Sail This book is widely regarded a classic of Sailing literature because it is an Account written by the sailor who made the First Solo navigation of the Globe under sail
