A Man For All Oceans. Captain Joshua Slocum And The First Solo Voyage Around The World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Tilbury House
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 399 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocums book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea.Here is the real story of Slocums Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocums uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailors perspective to Slocums solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreaus Walden and shows that Slocums simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured todays emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocums world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.

ISBN: 9780884485483