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Sailing Alone Around The World: A Sailing Memoir

Sailing Alone Around The World: A Sailing Memoir

Fogarty, Thomas
Varian, George
Slocum, Captain Joshua

Paperback

Series: Sailing Memoirs - Single-Handed Global Circumnavigation

Adventurers & ExplorersGifts & Stationery GeneralBoating

ISBN10: 1720971285
ISBN13: 9781720971283
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 10 2018
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.41 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 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. In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fundy on one side and the fertile Annapolis valley on the other. On the northern slope of the range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers, of which many vessels of all classes have been built. The people of this coast, hardy, robust, and strong, are disposed to compete in the world's commerce, and it is nothing against the master mariner if the birthplace mentioned on his certificate be Nova Scotia. I was born in a cold spot, on coldest North Mountain, on a cold February 20, though I am a citizen of the United States-a naturalized Yankee, if it may be said that Nova Scotians are not Yankees in the truest sense of the word. On both sides my family were sailors; and if any Slocum should be found not seafaring, he will show at least an inclination to whittle models of boats and contemplate voyages.

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