Description: Arguably the original sailing classic, this beautifully produced edition includes new maps and a foreword by a high-profile sailor.
Brief description: Joshua Slocum became a legend by being the first person to sail around the globe alone in 1895 in a 37-foot sloop, Spray, that he rebuilt himself from a derelict oyster sloop. He is possibly the best known single-handed sailor ever to have lived.
Review Quotes:
"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 anymore." --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