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Title: Sailing Alone Around the World
Author: Joshua Slocum
Narrator: Bernard Mayes
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-26-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 221 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Challenged by an expert who said it couldnt be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. This is Slocums own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage of theSpray.
Whether Slocum was more accomplished as a writer or sailor is hard to say. His writing style is fast paced, witty, and exhilarating, an absorbing match to his harrowing adventures - adventures that included being chased by Moorish pirates off Gibraltar; escaping a fleet of hostile canoes; being submerged by a great wave off the Patagonian coast; an encounter with Black Pedro, the worst murderer in Tierra del Fuego; and foiling a nocturnal attack by savages by strewing carpet tacks on theSprays deck.
Captain Joshua Slocum (18441909) was the first person to circle the globe alone entirely by sea. This remarkable achievement made Slocum the most famous North American sailor of all time.
Critic Reviews:
[A] literate and absorbing yarnA convincing tale of the intelligence, skill, and fortitude that drove a master navigator. (New York Times)
One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure. (Sports Illustrated)
A classic bookSlocums writing is as elegant as his thirty-seven-foot sloop, Spray, whose crossing of the Atlantic he describes vividly. (New Yorker)
