Sailing Alone Around the World
                            
                            9781970184181
                                240 pages
                            1828 Press
                            
                            
                                         
                         
                        
                                
Overview
                                In April 1895, Captain Joshua Slocum set sail from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in Spray—a thirtysix-foot, nine-inch gaff-rigged sloop—with one thought in mind: to be the first person to sail around the world alone.
                                                            Author Bio
                                Joshua Slocum (1844-1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. A naturalized American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer, he disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray.