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Review
…a literate and absorbing yarn published in 1900 and still in print… His story is a convincing tale of the intelligence, skill and fortitude that drove a master navigator. –New York Times

Review
A classic book… Slocum s writing is as elegant as his thirty-seven-foot sloop, SPRAY, whose crossing of the Atlantic he describes vividly. –New Yorker

Review
As a writer Slocum is given to plain understatement, dry wit, wry humor and Yankee observations about nature that led some to call him a sea-locked Thoreau. … he offers descriptive glances at the sea, in storm or calm, that can rival those of Joseph Conrad. –Smithsonian

Book Description
“If you havent read Slocum, you should, and this is the volume for you.” -Yachting Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail alone around the world. It was a feat that made him the”patron saint” of small-boat sailors all over the world. His voyage, retold in Sailing Alone Around the World, took place from 1895 to 1898. It made Slocum and his little boat Spray forever famous. First published in 1899, this book has been on the Sheridan House list for half a century. The reissue presents this classic in a very affordable paperback edition. “Captain Slocums place in history is as secure as Adamss. So long as men sail the seas they will be interested in that first single-handed circumnavigation and will wish to read the book..” -Arthur Ransome “a literate and absorbing yarn published in 1900 and still in print- His story is a convincing tale of the intelligence, skill and fortitude that drove a master navigator.” -New York Times

About the Author
Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail alone around the world. It was a feat that made him the patron saint of small boat sailors all over the world. His voyage, retold in Sailing Alone Around the World, took place from 1895 to 1898. It made Slocum and his little boat Spray forever famous.

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