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Sailing Alone Around the World

By: Joshua Slocum
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
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Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t 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 Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage of the Spray.

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 the Spray’s deck.

Captain Joshua Slocum (1844–1909) 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.

Public Domain (P)1992 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Sailing Sailing & Boating Travel Writing & Commentary Water Sports Sports Witty Pirate Nonfiction Adventure

Critic Reviews

“[A] literate and absorbing yarn…A 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 book…Slocum’s writing is as elegant as his thirty-seven-foot sloop, Spray, whose crossing of the Atlantic he describes vividly.” ( New Yorker)
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Definitely a slow starter and its important to understand the context of the time. I found the narrator a little challenging but the story is well worth the listen for any sailor or adventurer.

Slow but Worthwhile

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Very engaging and mellifluous voiced Narrator and so well Read I believed that he WAS- Joshua Slocum, what better Kudo can I think of than this ...Plan to Listen to it all again at years End when Hopefully I have my Own Boat⚓

I signed on As his Phantom Stowaway Shipmate ⚓🦣

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spoken in detail with brevity! this educational recount of Joshua Solocum is like a Utopian Shackleton adventure, in a similar tone and period. must listen for sailing and adventure buffs.

fascinating

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An interesting story and a good insight into life in those times. Well worth a listen.

An Epic Voyage

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…and some of the rest of us live vicariously in the telling of the tale.
I have spent some small time at sea , enough to know that it is Master.
So to take it on and match the tempo of the breeze and revel in it brings glory to a man.
His mystical chaperone from the ‘ Pinta ‘ speaks of how unknown forces will sometimes protect the brave and the innocent.
We all go forth with faith in our hearts accepting our fates with stoic endurance.
A hearty hail to Captain Joshua Slocum where ever in the ether he sails.

Those that can , do .

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I found this book interesting but it also tended to rush over such great portions of Slocums journey in little to no detail at all. An interesting account of an epic journey at a time very different to the present.

intriguing read

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