Alone at Sea: The Adventures of Joshua Slocum Paperback - 1999
by Ann Spencer
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The true story of Canada's greatest sailor, the first to sail around the world single-handedly.
When Joshua Slocum sailed into port in Massachusetts on June 27, 1898, he was the first man ever to have completed a voyage around the world without technology, money or companion. It took him three years to cover the 46,000 miles, and along the way he was chased by pirates, buffeted by storms, and narrowly escaped death by sharks. When a goat ate his charts, he managed to navigate through the Caribbean by memory and intuition. This is the true-life adventure story of an extraordinary man, who ran away to sea at sixteen and never looked back. Born on a farm in Nova Scotia, he apprenticed on voyages to China, Hong Kong and Indonesia; met and married his wife in Sydney, Australia, and raised his family aboard sailing vessels in ports around the world. He survived mutinies, lost cargoes, terrible storms, and treacheries at sea before resolving on his voyage around the world in a dilapidated oyster sloop he named "The Spray. After settling down and writing his memoirs, he set sail on November 14, 1909, and was never seen again.
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- Title Alone at Sea: The Adventures of Joshua Slocum
- Author Ann Spencer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Doubleday Canada, Garden City, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-06-15
- ISBN 9780385257718 / 0385257716
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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