The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas - the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable - and entertaining - travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six-foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world's great circumnavigators - Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them all: his three-year solo...
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas - the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.