Sailing Alone Around the World (Annotated)

Sailing Alone Around the World recounts Joshua Slocum's unprecedented solo circumnavigation aboard the Spray between 1895 and 1898. More than a nautical log, the book blends practical seamanship, comic anecdote, ethnographic observation, and meditative solitude in a prose style at once plainspoken and artfully self-possessed. Published in 1900, it belongs to the late Victorian literature of explor...