Series / Collection

Subjects

Circunnavegación, Historia Contemporánea, Navegación

ISBN/ISSN

0-7607-1986-1

Publication

USA: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2000

Summary

First published in 1900, “Sailing Alone Around the World” is Captain Joshua Slocum’s epic personal account of his solitary three-year voyage -a first in circumnavigation. Fifty-one years old when he set sail from Boston in April 1895 in his 36-foot sloop “Spray”. Slocum crossed the Atlantic to Gibraltar before heading west, going across the Atlantic again and through the Strait of Magellan, across the Pacific to Australia, aroound the Cape of Good Hope, and back across the Atlantic for a third time. He anchored in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1898.
“Sailing Alone Around the World ” is awash with adventure on the high seas, landfalls in exotic places, and encounters with the great, the humble, and the eccentric. Slocum was a keen observer of men, women, and nature. Whether it be in a description of risking his life among Moorish pirates or the Indians of Tierra del Fuego or of exploring Robinson Crusoe’s island or of visiting newly wodowed Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa. Slocum is a master of the telling comment and vivid detail. His accounts of landing at the Cocos Islands, St. Helena, and other outposts, and of his meetings with Stanley (of Livingstone fame), Kruger of the Transvaal, and other remain exemplars of revealing anecdote.

Notes

264 p.

Language

English

Katalogo-zenbaki

910.41 SLO

Availability

Available