Sailing Alone Around the World:

Joshua Slocum spent a lifetime adrift. He fled from his Nova Scotia home at 14 years old, and for the following 35 years he cruised the world holding each shipboard rank. At the point when a ship under his summon was destroyed on the shoreline of Brazil in 1887, it appeared that his oceanic profession had finished in disrespect. Not one for resigning to hearty fields, Slocum modified a hundred-year old sloop and set off from Boston in 1895 on the primary independent circumnavigation of the globe. For over three years, Slocum fought stormy oceans, assaults from thieves and privateers, and obviously, dejection. He crossed the Atlantic no less than three times, invested weeks whipping against the components around Cape Horn, and discovered sanctuary in various colorful harbors. [i]Sailing Alone around the World[/i] is the exceptional story of small time's strength and cleverness, and has a persisting and widespread interest as a historic point of world enterprise. Stanfords Travel Classics include a portion of the finest recorded travel writing in the English dialect, with writers hailing from the two sides of the Atlantic. Each title has been rest in a contemporary typeface and has been printed to a fantastic generation detail, to make an arrangement that each admirer of fine travel writing will need to gather and keep.