![]() ![]() Slight browning to frontispiece and title page. TOY 462 A few slight extremity rubs and a small prior owner label at top fore corner of front pastedown, some darkening along fore edge of lower board. CHAPTER II - Failure as a fisherman-A voyage around the world projected-From Boston to Gloucester-Fitting out for the ocean voyage-Half of a dory for a. 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 worlds great. An essential first edition in any serious sailing collection. Slocum's poetic perception of the world and his graceful descriptions of his vision of reality have caused this classic to be compared favorably to Thoreau's "Walden." Slocum and "Spray" disappeared at sea in 1909. He rebuilt her and sailed from Boston westward around the world by way of hte Straits of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope. ![]() "Spray" was a wreck of a boat given to Slocum by a fellow sea captain. ![]() ![]() Slocum was the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate the earth, doing so in his gaff-rigged sloop, "Spray," between April 1895 and June 1898. Bright first edition of this landmark sailing narrative. Slocum documents his groundbreaking, three-year voyage in great detail in his book Sailing Alone Around the World.' A chance meeting in Boston a few years earlier with an old. On April 24, 1895, Captain Joshua Slocum set out on a three-year journey to circumnavigate the world alone by boat. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian (illustrator). ![]()
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