Yes, Slocum's journey was 'epic' but it was also eccentric, unlikely and his unsurpassable action elegiac...The unaffected and quirky intimacy with which he writes will never be matched. You cannot do what he did any more.
- Matthew Parris
Boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once.
- Arthur Ransome
One of the all-time classic sailing narratives.
- Classic Boat
It is riveting stuff... A great read. --- The Nautical Magazine
"Sailing Alone Around the World" is the famous sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his solo global circumnavigation aboard the ship Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.
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