Sailing Alone Around the World: a Personal Account of the First Solo Circumnavigation of the Globe by Sail (Paperback)

from maritimer

Sailing Alone Around the World is a fine read. Slocum travelled 46,000 miles in 3 years, averaging about 40 miles per day. This slow progress is reflected in the tone and pace of the book - the account definitely includes lots of rose smelling along the way. The reader should not expect scary tal...

from AliceAnna

Pretty entertaining. Could have been really dry, but Slocum showed a lot of humor and insight into human nature. He sailed in the mid to late 1890's facing pirates, cannibals, flat earthers, and a particularly nasty goat. It would make a great period movie.

from Schmerguls

4615. Sailing Alone Around the World, by Captain Joshua Slocum edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Philbrick (read 4 Sep 2009) This sets out the amazing facts on the trip around the world the author took with a boat he reconstructed., The boat was 37 feet long and 13 feet wide, and wh...

from martyb

Written in the antique language of the turn-of-the century this book has a slightly stilted feel to it. For example, the original inhabitants of a place are referred to as savages. For all this, it is still a good sailing story, all the more so for it being, supposedly, the first single-handed ci...

from darlingtrk

This is a classic in the truest sense. It's a true account written by a man who did it. Not a fiction, which would be impressive enough, but the reflections of a pioneer on what he considered important. He does not present himself as an introspective post-modern, but an explorer gentleman whose p...