Sailing Alone around the World [SCM]
by Joshua Slocum Author
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 "The Spray" in 1895, Captain Slocum voyaged solo for more than three years and 46,000 miles. Pen and ink illustrations add to the story, and the Notes in the back help non-maritime experts understand nautical sayings. Slocum was a clean-living sailor with a great sense of humor and a literary writing style.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0140437363
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 21
- Pages
- 273
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- Massachusetts, Azores, Europe, Africa, South American, Australia
- Historical Setting
- 1895 - 1898
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Copyright
- 1999
- Written
- 1900
Chapters
- 1 A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities
- 2 Failure as a fisherman
- 3 Good-by to the American coast
- 4 Squally weather in the Azores
- 5 Sailing from Gibralter with the assistance of her Majesty's tug
- 6 Departure from Rio de Janeiro
- 7 Weighing anchor at Buenos Aires
- 8 From Cape Pillar into the Pacific
- 9 Repairing the Spray's sails
- 10 Running to Port Angosto in a snow-storm
- 11 The islanders of Juan Fernandez entertained with Yankee doughnuts
- 12 Seventy-two days without a port
- 13 Samoan royalty
- 14 A testimonial from a lady
- 15 Arrival at Port Denison, Queensland
- 16 A call for careful navigation
- 17 A clean bill of health at Mauritius
- 18 Rounding the Cape of Storms in olden time
- 19 In the isle of Napoleon's exile
- 20 In the favoring current off Cape St. Roque, Brazil
- 21 Clearing for home
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