Best Selling Books by Joshua Slocum

In 1895, at the age of 51, Captain Joshua Slocum left Boston on his sloop Spray. Three years later, after sailing single-handed 46,000 miles around the world, Slocum returned to Newport, Rhode Island. Through this, he was revered by sailors and adventurers around the world. The story of this journey is a classic tale of achievement in the face of overwhelming odds. "Walden without the training wheels." -Nathaniel Philbrick

Joshua Slocum was the first man to circumnavigate the world single-handed. This classic account of his voyage remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time, from encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, to tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish.

About BookSailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop 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.Captain Slocum was a highly experienced navigator and ship owner. He rebuilt and refitted the derelict sloop Spray in a seaside pasture at Fairhaven, Massachusetts, over 13 months between early 1893 and 1894.

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 circumnavigates - Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them all: his three-year solo voyage of more than 46,000 miles remains unmatched in maritime history for its courage, skill, and determination.Sailing Alone around the World recounts Slocum''s wonderful adventures: hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Terra de Fugue; raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs; flying fish for breakfast in the Pacific; and a hilarious visit with fellow explorer Henry Stanley in South Africa. A century later, Slocum''s incomparable book endures as one of the greatest narratives of adventure ever written

As the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone, Captain Joshua Slocum is celebrated as the patron saint of small-boat voyagers, navigators, and adventurers all over the world (Joshua Slocum Society), and heralded as the penultimate example of independent marine navigation at a time when the invention of steam had nearly put an end to the Golden Age of Sail. His timeless account, Sailing Alone Around the World, still coveted by sailors and thrill-seekers alike, has continued to inspire scores of lone adventurers, and challenged countless readers to change their lives since its initial publication in 1900.

Joshua Slocum''s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is throughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scheer, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and In the News sidebars for historical context that will make Slocum''s masterpiece more accessible to today''s readers, sailors and landlubbers alike.

Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop 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.

Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop 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.

Joshua Slocum¿s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context that will make Slocum¿s masterpiece more accessible to today¿s readers¿sailors and landlubbers alike.

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P. 160-171 covers rescue of some Gilbert Islanders.

Decades after Jessica Mitford stunned America with vivid accounts of corruption and abuse in the death industry, not much has improved. Families are manipulated into buying expensive goods and services they don''t need or want. Prepaid funeral money vanishes into thin air. Body parts are sold on the black market. Eight states force families to pay a funeral director even if they conduct a home funeral with no need for help. But a consumer movement is no awakening, and Americans are asserting their rights over a key part of life, just as they did in the past with the natural childbirth and hospice movements. The two most prominent leaders of that movement are the authors of this book: Joshua Slocum, executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, and Lisa Carlson, executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization. Here they join forces to expose wrongdoing, inform consumers of their rights, and propose legal reforms. The book includes state-by-state summaries of laws, regulations, services, and consumer concerns.

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L''autre chef-d''œuvre de Joshua Slocum ! Sept ans avant de réaliser le premier tour du monde en solitaire, Joshua Slocum, capitaine marchand, voit ses efforts anéantis sur les côtes du Brésil, victime d''un ultime naufrage. Grâce au bois tiré de l''épave de son trois-mâts, sans un sou, il construit le Liberdade, embarcation de 10,60 mètres digne de Robinson Crusoé. A son bord, coûte que coûte, Slocum rentre aux États-Unis avec femme et enfants. Tempêtes, épidémies, mutineries, naufrage, émaillent " Le Voyage du Liberdade ", épopée pleine de verve et d''aventures, animée par l''esprit du plus grand des navigateurs solitaires. A ce récit captivant s''ajoutent : " Le Voyage du Destroyer ", souvenirs tragi-comiques d''une mission de capitaine mercenaire lors d''un coup d''État au Brésil, et " Sauvetage de quelques indigènes des îles Gilbert " relation pleine d''humanité se déroulant en plein Pacifique. Avec ces deux textes jusqu''alors inédits en français, ce livre présente pour la première fois l''ensemble des récits de mer de Slocum antérieurs à son tour du monde.