{"product_id":"sailing-alone-around-the-world-isbn-9780140437362","title":"Sailing Alone around the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six-foot wooden sloop \u003ci\u003eSpray \u003c\/i\u003ein April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world’s great circumnavigators – Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them all: his three-year solo voyage of more than 46,000 miles remains unmatched in maritime history for its courage, skill, and determination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSailing Alone around the World\u003c\/i\u003e recounts Slocum’s wonderful adventures: hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Tierra del Fuego; raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs; flying fish for breakfast in the Pacific; and a hilarious visit with fellow explorer Henry Stanley in South Africa. A century later, Slocum’s incomparable book endures as one of the greatest narratives of adventure ever written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003eSailing Alone Around The WorldList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Thomas Philbrick\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text and Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eSailing Alone around the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter I\u003c\/b\u003eA blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities\u003cbr\u003eYouthful fondness for the sea\u003cbr\u003eMaster of the ship \u003ci\u003eNorhtern Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLoss of the \u003ci\u003eAquidneck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturn home from Brazil in the canoe \u003ci\u003eLiberdale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gift of a \"ship\"\u003cbr\u003eThe rebuilding of the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConundrums in regard to finance and calking\u003cbr\u003eThe launching of the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFailure as a fisherman\u003cbr\u003eA voyage around the world projected\u003cbr\u003eFrom Boston to Gloucester\u003cbr\u003eFitting out for the ocean voyage\u003cbr\u003eHalf of a dory for a ship's boat\u003cbr\u003eThe run from Gloucester to Nova Scotia\u003cbr\u003eA shaking up in home waters\u003cbr\u003eAmong old friends\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGood-by to the American coast\u003cbr\u003eOff Sable Island in a fog\u003cbr\u003eIn the open sea\u003cbr\u003eThe man in the moon takes an interest in the voyage\u003cbr\u003eThe first fit of loneliness\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e encounters \u003ci\u003eLa Vaguisa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bottle of wine from the Spaniard\u003cbr\u003eA bout of words with the captain of the \u003ci\u003eJava\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe steamship \u003ci\u003eOlympia\u003c\/i\u003e spoken\u003cbr\u003eArrival at the Azores\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter IV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSqually weather in the Azores\u003cbr\u003eHigh living\u003cbr\u003eDelirious from cheese and plums\u003cbr\u003eThe pilot of the \u003ci\u003ePinta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt Gibraltar\u003cbr\u003eCompliments exchanged with the British navy\u003cbr\u003eA picnic on the Morocco shore\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter V\u003c\/b\u003eSailing from Gibraltar with assistance of her Majesty's tug\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpray's\u003c\/i\u003e course changed from the Suez Canal to Cape Horn\u003cbr\u003eChased by a Moorish pirate\u003cbr\u003eA comparison with Columbus\u003cbr\u003eThe Canary Islands\u003cbr\u003eThe Cape Verde Islands\u003cbr\u003eSea life\u003cbr\u003eArrival at Pernambuco\u003cbr\u003eA bill against the Brazilian government\u003cbr\u003ePreparing for the stormy weather of the cape\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter VI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeparture from Rio de Janeiro\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e ashore on the sands of Uruguay\u003cbr\u003eA narrow escape from shipwreck\u003cbr\u003eThe boy who found a sloop\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e floated but somewhat damaged\u003cbr\u003eCourtesies from the British consul at Maldonado\u003cbr\u003eA warm greeting at Montevideo\u003cbr\u003eAn excursion to Buenos Aires\u003cbr\u003eShortening the mast and bowsprit\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter VII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeighing anchor at Buenos Aires\u003cbr\u003eAn outburst of emotion at the mouth of the Plate\u003cbr\u003eSubmerged by a great wave\u003cbr\u003eA stormy entrance to the strait\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Samblich's happy gift of a bag of carpet-tacks\u003cbr\u003eOff Cape Froward\u003cbr\u003eChased by Indians from Fortescue Bay\u003cbr\u003eA miss-shot for \"Black Pedro\"\u003cbr\u003eTaking in supplies of wood and water at Three Island Cove\u003cbr\u003eAnimal life\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter VIII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Cape Pillar into the Pacific\u003cbr\u003eDriven by a tempest toward Cape Horn\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Slocum's greatest sea adventure\u003cbr\u003eReaching the strait again by way of Cockburn Channel\u003cbr\u003eSome savages find the carpet-tacks\u003cbr\u003eDanger from firebrands\u003cbr\u003eA series of fierce williwaws\u003cbr\u003eAgain sailing westward\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter IX\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRepairing the \u003ci\u003eSpray's\u003c\/i\u003e sails\u003cbr\u003eSavages and an obstreperous anchor\u003cbr\u003eA spider-fight\u003cbr\u003eAn encounter with Black Pedro\u003cbr\u003eA visit to the steamship \u003ci\u003eColombia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the defensive against a fleet of canoes\u003cbr\u003eA record of voyages through the strait\u003cbr\u003eA chance cargo of tallow\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter X\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRunning to Port Angosto in a snow-storm\u003cbr\u003eA defective sheet-rope places the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e in peril\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e as a target for a Fuegian arrow\u003cbr\u003eThe island of Alan Erric\u003cbr\u003eAgain in the open Pacific\u003cbr\u003eThe run to the island of Juan Fernandez\u003cbr\u003eAn absentee king\u003cbr\u003eAt Robinson Crusoe's anchorage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe islanders of Juan Fernandez entertained with Yankee doughnuts\u003cbr\u003eThe beauties of Robinson Crusoe's realm\u003cbr\u003eThe mountain monument to Alexander Selkirk\u003cbr\u003eRobinson Crusoe's cave\u003cbr\u003eA stroll with the children of the island\u003cbr\u003eWestward ho! with a friendly gale\u003cbr\u003eA month's free sailing with the Southern Cross and the sun for guides\u003cbr\u003eSighting the Marquesas\u003cbr\u003eExperience in reckoning\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventy-two days without a port\u003cbr\u003eWhales and birds\u003cbr\u003eA peep into the \u003ci\u003eSpray's\u003c\/i\u003e galley\u003cbr\u003eFlying-fish for breakfast\u003cbr\u003eA welcome at Apia\u003cbr\u003eA visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eAt Vailima\u003cbr\u003eSamoan hospitality\u003cbr\u003eArrested for fast riding\u003cbr\u003eAn amusing merry-go-round\u003cbr\u003eTeachers and pupils of Papauta College\u003cbr\u003eAt the mercy of sea-nymphs\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XIII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamoan royalty\u003cbr\u003eKing Malietoa\u003cbr\u003eGood-bye to friends at Vailima\u003cbr\u003eLeaving Fiji to the south\u003cbr\u003eArrival at Newcastle, Australia\u003cbr\u003eThe yachts of Sydney\u003cbr\u003eA ducking on the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommodore Foy presents the sloop with a new suit of sails\u003cbr\u003eOn to Melbourne\u003cbr\u003eA shark that proved to be valuable\u003cbr\u003eA change of course\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Rain of Blood\"\u003cbr\u003eIn Tasmania\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XIV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA testimonial from a lady\u003cbr\u003eCruising round Tasmania\u003cbr\u003eThe skipper delivers his first lecture on the voyage\u003cbr\u003eAbundant provisions\u003cbr\u003eAn inspection of the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e for safety at Devonport\u003cbr\u003eAgain at Sydney\u003cbr\u003eNorthward bound for Torres Strait\u003cbr\u003eAn amateur shipwreck\u003cbr\u003eFriends on the Autralian coast\u003cbr\u003ePerils of a coral sea\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArrival at Port Denison, Queensland\u003cbr\u003eA lecture\u003cbr\u003eReminiscences of Captain Cook\u003cbr\u003eLecturing for charity at Cooktown\u003cbr\u003eA happy escape from a coral reef\u003cbr\u003eHome Island, Sunday Island, Bird Island\u003cbr\u003eAn American pearl-fisherman\u003cbr\u003eJubilee at Thursday Island\u003cbr\u003eA new ensign for the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooby Island\u003cbr\u003eAcross the Indian Ocean\u003cbr\u003eChristmas Island\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XVI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA call for careful navigation\u003cbr\u003eThree hours' steering in twenty-three days\u003cbr\u003eArrival at the Keeling Cocos Islands\u003cbr\u003eA curious chapter of social history\u003cbr\u003eA welcome from the children of the islands\u003cbr\u003eCleaning and painting the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e on the beach\u003cbr\u003eA Mohammedan blessing for a pot of jam\u003cbr\u003eKeeling as a paradise\u003cbr\u003eA risky adventure in a small boat\u003cbr\u003eAway to Rodriguez\u003cbr\u003eTaken for Antichrist\u003cbr\u003eThe governor calms the fears of the people\u003cbr\u003eA lecture\u003cbr\u003eA convent in the hills\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XVII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA clean bill of health at Mauritius\u003cbr\u003eSailing the voyage over again in the opera-house\u003cbr\u003eA newly discovered plant named in honor of the \u003ci\u003eSpray's\u003c\/i\u003e skipper\u003cbr\u003eA party of young ladies out for a sail\u003cbr\u003eA bivouac on deck\u003cbr\u003eA warm reception at Durban\u003cbr\u003eA friendly cross-examination by Henry M. Stanley\u003cbr\u003eThree wise Boers seek proof of the flatness of the earth\u003cbr\u003eLeaving South Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XVIII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRounding the \"Cape of Storms\" in olden time\u003cbr\u003eA rough Christmas\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e ties up for a three months' rest at Cape Town\u003cbr\u003eA railway trip to the Transvaal\u003cbr\u003ePresident Kruger's odd definition of the \u003ci\u003eSpray's\u003c\/i\u003e voyage\u003cbr\u003eHis terse sayings\u003cbr\u003eDistinguished guests on the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCocoanut fiber as a padlock\u003cbr\u003eCourtesies from the admiral of the Queen's navy\u003cbr\u003eOff for St. Helena\u003cbr\u003eLand in sight\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XIX\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the isle of Napoleon's exile\u003cbr\u003eTwo lectures\u003cbr\u003eA guest in the ghost-room at Plantation House\u003cbr\u003eAn excursion to historic Longwood\u003cbr\u003eCoffee in the husk, and a goat to shell it\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpray's\u003c\/i\u003e ill luck with animals\u003cbr\u003eA prejudice against small dogs\u003cbr\u003eA rat, the Boston spider, and the cannibal cricket\u003cbr\u003eAscension Island\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XX\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the favoring current of Cape St. Roque, Brazil\u003cbr\u003eAll at sea regarding the Spanish-American war\u003cbr\u003eAn exchange of signals with the battle-ship \u003ci\u003eOregon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOff Dreyfus's prison on Devil's Island\u003cbr\u003eReappearance to the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e of the north star\u003cbr\u003eThe light on Trinidad\u003cbr\u003eA charming introduction to Grenada\u003cbr\u003eTalks to friendly auditors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter XXI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClearing for home\u003cbr\u003eIn the calm belt\u003cbr\u003eA sea covered with sargasso\u003cbr\u003eThe jibstay parts in a gale\u003cbr\u003eWelcomed by a tornado off Fire Island\u003cbr\u003eA change of plan\u003cbr\u003eArrival at Newport\u003cbr\u003eEnd of a cruise of over forty-six thousand miles\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e again at Fairhaven\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLines and Sail-Plan of the \"Spray\"\u003cbr\u003eHer pedigree so far as known\u003cbr\u003eThe lines of the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer self-steering qualities\u003cbr\u003eSail-plan and steering-gear\u003cbr\u003eAn unprecedented feat\u003cbr\u003eA cheer to would-be navigators\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Philbrick\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Thomas Philbrick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on the Text and Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSailing Alone around the World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities — Youthful fondness for the sea — Master of the ship \u003ci\u003eNorthern Light — \u003c\/i\u003eLoss of the \u003ci\u003eAquidneck — \u003c\/i\u003eReturn home from Brazil in the canoe \u003ci\u003eLiberdade — \u003c\/i\u003eThe gift of a “ship” — The rebuilding of the \u003ci\u003eSpray — \u003c\/i\u003eConundrums in regard to finance and calking — The launching of the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFailure 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 ship’s boat — The run from Gloucester to Nova Scotia — A shaking up in home waters — Among old friends\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood-by to the American coast — Off Sable Island in a fog — In the open sea — The man in the moon takes an interest in the voyage — The first fit of loneliness — The \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e encounters \u003ci\u003eLa Vaguisa — \u003c\/i\u003eA bottle of wine from the Spaniard — About of words with the captain of the \u003ci\u003eJava\u003c\/i\u003e — The steamship \u003ci\u003eOlympia\u003c\/i\u003e spoken — Arrival at the Azores\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSqually weather in the Azores — High living — Delirious from cheese and plums — The pilot of the \u003ci\u003ePinta — \u003c\/i\u003eAt Gibraltar — Compliments exchanged with the British navy — A picnic on the Morocco shore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER V\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSailing from Gibraltar with the assistance of her Majesty’s tug — The \u003ci\u003eSpray’s\u003c\/i\u003e course changed from the Suez Canal to Cape Horn — Chased by a Moorish pirate — A comparison with Columbus — The Canary Islands — The Cape Verde Islands — Sea life — Arrival at Pernambuco — A bill against the Brazilian government — Preparing for the stormy weather of the cape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeparture from Rio de Janeiro — The \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e ashore on the sands of Uruguay — A narrow escape from shipwreck — The boy who found a sloop — The \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e floated but somewhat damaged — Courtesies from the British consul at Maldonado — A warm greeting at Montevideo — An excursion to Buenos Aires — Shortening the mast and bowsprit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeighing anchor at Buenos Aires — An outburst of emotion at the mouth of the Plate — Submerged by a great wave — A stormy entrance to the strait — Captain Samblich’s happy gift of a bag of carpet-tacks — Off Cape Froward — Chased by Indians from Fortescue Bay — A miss-shot for “Black Pedro,” — Taking in supplies of wood and water at Three Island Cove — Animal life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VIII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Cape Pillar into the Pacific — Driven by a tempest toward Cape Horn — Captain Slocum’s greatest sea adventure — Reaching the strait again by way of Cockburn Channel — Some savages find the carpet-tacks — Danger from firebrands — A series of fierce williwaws — Again sailing westward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER IX\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRepairing the \u003ci\u003eSpray’s\u003c\/i\u003e sails — Savages and an obstreperous anchor — A spider-fight — An encounter with Black Pedro — A visit to the steamship \u003ci\u003eColombia — \u003c\/i\u003eOn the defensive against a fleet of canoes — A record of voyages through the strait — A chance cargo of tallow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning to Port Angosto in a snow-storm — A defective sheet-rope places the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e in peril — The \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e as a target for a Fuegian arrow — The island of Alan Erric — Again in the open Pacific — The run to the island of Juan Fernandez — An absentee king — At Robinson Crusoe’s anchorage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe islanders of Juan Fernandez entertained with Yankee doughnuts — The beauties of Robinson Crusoe’s realm — The mountain monument to Alexander Selkirk — Robinson Crusoe’s cave — A stroll with the children of the island — Westward ho! with a friendly gale — A month’s free sailing with the Southern Cross and the sun for guides — Sighting the Marquesas — Experience in reckoning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventy-two days without a port — Whales and birds — A peep into the \u003ci\u003eSpray’s\u003c\/i\u003e galley — Flying-fish for breakfast — A welcome at Apia — A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson — At Vailima — Samoan hospitality — Arrested for fast riding — An amusing merry-go-round — Teachers and pupils of Papauta College — At the mercy of sea-nymphs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XIII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamoan royalty — King Malietoa — Good-by to friends at Vailima — Leaving Fiji to the south — Arrival at Newcastle, Australia — The yachts of Sydney — A ducking on the \u003ci\u003eSpray — \u003c\/i\u003eCommodore Foy presents the sloop with a new suit of sails — On to Melbourne — A shark that proved to be valuable — A change of course — The “Rain of Blood” — In Tasmania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XIV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA testimonial from a lady — Cruising round Tasmania — The skipper delivers his first lecture on the voyage — Abundant provisions — An inspection of the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e for safety at Devonport — Again at Sydney — Northward bound for Torres Strait — An amateur shipwreck — Friends on the Australian coast — Perils of a coral sea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArrival at Port Denison, Queensland — A lecture — Reminiscences of Captain Cook — Lecturing for charity at Cook-town — A happy escape from a coral reef — Home Island, Sunday Island, Bird Island — An American pearl-fisherman — Jubilee at Thursday Island — A new ensign for the \u003ci\u003eSpray — \u003c\/i\u003eBooby Island — Across the Indian Ocean — Christmas Island\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XVI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA call for careful navigation — Three hours’ steering in twenty-three days — Arrival at the Keeling Cocos Islands — A curious chapter of social history — A welcome from the children of the islands — Cleaning and painting the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e on the beach — A Mohammedan blessing for a pot of jam — Keeling as a paradise — A risky adventure in a small boat — Away to Rodriguez — Taken for Antichrist — The governor calms the fears of the people — A lecture — A convent in the hills\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XVII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA clean bill of health at Mauritius — Sailing the voyage over again in the opera-house — A newly discovered plant named in honor of the \u003ci\u003eSpray’s\u003c\/i\u003e skipper — A party of young ladies out for a sail — A bivouac on deck — A warm reception at Durban — A friendly cross-examination by Henry M. Stanley — Three wise Boers seek proof of the flatness of the earth — Leaving South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XVIII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRounding the “Cape of Storms” in olden time — A rough Christmas — The \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e ties up for a three months’ rest at Cape Town — A railway trip to the Transvaal — President Kruger’s odd definition of the \u003ci\u003eSpray’s\u003c\/i\u003e voyage — His terse sayings — Distinguished guests on the \u003ci\u003eSpray — \u003c\/i\u003eCocoanut fiber as a padlock — Courtesies from the admiral of the Queen’s navy — Off for St. Helena — Land in sight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XIX\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the isle of Napoleon’s exile — Two lectures — A guest in the ghost-room at Plantation House — An excursion to historic Longwood — Coffee in the husk, and a goat to shell it — The \u003ci\u003eSpray’s\u003c\/i\u003e ill luck with animals — A prejudice against small dogs — A rat, the Boston spider, and the cannibal cricket — Ascension Island\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XX\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the favoring current off Cape St. Roque, Brazil — All at sea regarding the Spanish-American war — An exchange of signals with the battle-ship \u003ci\u003eOregon — \u003c\/i\u003eOff Dreyfus’s prison on Devil’s Island — Reappearance to the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e of the north star — The light on Trinidad — A charming introduction to Grenada — Talks to friendly auditors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XXI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClearing for home — In the calm belt — A sea covered with sargasso — The jibstay parts in a gale — Welcomed by a tornado off Fire Island — A change of plan — Arrival at Newport — End of a cruise of over forty-six thousand miles — The \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e again at Fairhaven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAPPENDIX\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLINES AND SAIL-PLAN OF THE “SPRAY”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer pedigree so far as known — The lines of the \u003ci\u003eSpray — \u003c\/i\u003eHer self-steering qualities — Sail-plan and steering-gear — An unprecedented feat — A final word of cheer to would-be navigators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePENGUIN      CLASSICS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Slocum was born in Nova Scotia in 1844. After three years of schooling, he was put to work in the family bootmaking shop. At fourteen he escaped from his father’s tyrannical rule, first to the local fishing fleet, and then to the British merchant marine as an ordinary seaman. In the mid-1860s he was promoted to mate and became a United States citizen. In 1871, by then a shipmaster, he married Virginia Walker, a brave and resourceful Australian woman who was to accompany him on voyages throughout the world, bearing his four children and relishing the hardships and adventure of life at sea. After Virginia died in 1884, Slocum’s career began a sharp descent. His last command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887. Financially ruined, he and his young cousin Hettie Elliott, whom he had married a few months before, together with two of his sons, returned to the United States in a boat that they fashioned from materials salvaged from the wreck. Unable to find an officer’s berth, Slocum accepted a friend’s offer of the rotting hull of a hundred-year-old oyster sloop, the \u003ci\u003eSpray.\u003c\/i\u003e After rebuilding the boat and testing her in New England waters, in 1895 he set out upon a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, the first such voyage ever attempted. Surviving loneliness, storm, and piratical attacks, he returned home in 1898 and wrote his extraordinary narrative, \u003ci\u003eSailing Alone around the World.\u003c\/i\u003e Although his voyage and his book made Slocum something of a celebrity, he soon went back to his old ways, making repeated trading trips alone in the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e along the American coast and to the Caribbean. In 1909 the sea-worn sloop and her aging master headed south from Martha’s Vineyard, never to be seen again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Philbrick is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh and a lifelong small boat sailor. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e James Fenimore Cooper and the Development of American Sea Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and a study of \u003ci\u003eSt. John de Crèvecoeur.\u003c\/i\u003e He has edited five of Cooper’s novels and travel books for the Cooper Edition, as well as Dana’s \u003ci\u003eTwo Years Before the Mast\u003c\/i\u003e for Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSailing Alone\u003cbr\u003eAround The World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAPTAIN JOSHUA SLOCUM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHOMAS FOGARTY AND GEORGE VARIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited with an \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction and Notes by\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHOMAS PHILBRICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePENGUIN BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Northern Light” Captain Joshua Slocum, Bound for Liverpool, 1885\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCross-section of the “Spray”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’ll Crawl”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No Dorg nor no Cat”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Deacon’s Dream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Slocum’s Chronometer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Good Evening, Sir”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe also Sent his Card\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChart of the “Spray’s” Course around the World—April 24, 1895, to July 3, 1898\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Island of Pico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChart of the “Spray’s” Atlantic Voyages from Boston to Gibraltar, thence to the Strait of Magellan, in 1895, and finally Homeward Bound from the Cape of Good Hope in 1898\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Apparition at the Wheel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing to Anchor at Gibraltar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray” at Anchor off Gibraltar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChased by Pirates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Suddenly Remembered that I could not Swim\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Double Surprise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Sign of the Comet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Great Wave off the Patagonian Coast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntrance to the Strait of Magellan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Course of the “Spray” through the Strait of Magellan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Man who wouldn’t Ship without another “Mon and a Doog”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Fuegian Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking West from Fortescue Bay, where the “Spray” was Chased by Indians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Brush with Fuegians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Bit of Friendly Assistance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCape Pillar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey Howled like a Pack of Hounds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Glimpse of Sandy Point (Punta Arenas) in the Strait of Magellan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yammerschooner!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Contrast in Lighting—the Electric Lights of the “Columbia” and the Canoe Fires of the Fortescue Indians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecords of Passages through the Strait at the Head of Borgia Bay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalving Wreckage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe First Shot Uncovered Three Fuegians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray” Approaching Juan Fernandez, Robinson Crusoe’s Island\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe House of the King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobinson Crusoe’s Cave\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Man who Called a Cabra a Goat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeeting with the Whale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Exchange of Courtesies in Samoa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVailima, the Home of Robert Louis Stevenson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray’s” Course from Australia to South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Accident at Sydney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Slocum Working the “Spray” out of the Yarrow River, a Part of Melbourne Harbor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Shark on the Deck of the “Spray”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Board at St. Kilda. Retracing on the Chart the Course of the “Spray” from Boston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray” in her Port Duster at Devonport, Tasmania, February 22, 1897\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Is it A-goin’ to Blow?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray” Leaving Sydney, Australia, in the New Suit of Sails Given by Commodore Foy of Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray” Ashore for “Boot-topping” at the Keeling Islands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Slocum Drifting out to Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray” at Mauritius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Joshua Slocum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCartoon Printed in the Cape Town “Owl” of March 5, 1898, in Connection with an Item about Captain Slocum’s Trip to Pretoria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Slocum, Sir Alfred Milner (with the Tall Hat), and Colonel Saunderson, M. P., on the Bow of the “Spray” at Cape Town\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading Day and Night\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray” Passed by the “Oregon”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Spray” in the Storm off New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgain Tied to the Old Stake at Fairhaven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlan of the After Cabin of the “Spray”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeck-plan of the “Spray”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSail-plan of the “Spray”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteering-gear of the “Spray”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBody-plan of the “Spray”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLines of the “Spray”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The greatest sailor since our world began”; that is the praise that Herman Melville, quoting Tennyson, accorded Lord Nelson in \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd.\u003c\/i\u003e Had he lived a decade longer, Melville might have had second thoughts, for by then Joshua Slocum had accomplished a voyage unmatched in maritime history for skill, courage, and determination. In April 1895 he set out alone from Boston in a thirty-six-foot sloop to travel around the world, sailed across the Atlantic to Gibraltar, changed his mind about the direction of his circumnavigation and recrossed the Atlantic to Brazil, fought his way through the Strait of Magellan, sailed west across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and, crossing the Atlantic for a third time, reached Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1898. And, to crown the achievement, Slocum wrote an account of his exploit that might well be called, if not the greatest, the most engaging of all voyage narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth the voyage and the book were the work of a failed and impoverished shipmaster in late middle age. Deprived of his occupation by the disastrous outcome of his last voyage and the approaching extinction of the sailing ship as a vehicle of commerce, Slocum accepted a friend’s offer of an antique sloop named the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e, beached and derelict like himself, as the only means left to him of salvaging his life. As he slowly rebuilt the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e, timber by timber and plank by plank, he envisioned earning a modest and conventional living by her in the coastal fishery. Once launched, however, the sloop came to be the repository of a preposterous idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo be sure, Slocum tried fishing in the \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e, but less as a serious enterprise than as a trial run, a means of ascertaining her capabilities and limitations. Remarkably, the sloop showed that she could steer herself—if the wind were aft or abeam, she could hold a steady course with the helm lashed and unattended. The discovery of that extraordinary trait was, beyond any doubt, the germ of Slocum’s scheme of sailing alone around the world, for without the self-steering ability of the Spray, no solitary sailor would have the endurance to make the passages of thousands of miles of open ocean that the voyage entailed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus, like the aged Quixote and his Rocinante, Slocum and his \u003ci\u003eSpray\u003c\/i\u003e set forth on a mad attempt to participate in a world that was past, for him not the golden age of chivalry but the golden age of sail. He would join the company of the great circumnavigators—Magellan, Drake, and Cook—and outdo them all by circling the globe without crew or consorts. And he would do it not in the pursuit of any economic, political, or scientific purpose; he would do it, so he said, for “the love of adventure.” Or, perhaps, he also said, he would do it because he had “nothing else to do.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo life could have offered better preparation for the demands of a single-handed voyage around the world than Slocum’s. The descendant of a Tory refugee from revolutionary Massachusetts, he was born on 20 February 1844 in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, the eldest son among the ten children who survived childhood. When the boy was eight, his father gave up the attempt to scratch a living from the hill farm that he had inherited and moved the family to his wife’s native village of Westport on Brier Island. With the Bay of Fundy on one side and Saint Mary’s Bay on the other, Brier Island afforded the young Joshua a thoroughly maritime environment, a remote region of fog and forty-foot tides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut to him the sea at first beckoned in vain. His father, a muscular deacon of the Methodist church, took the boy out of school at the age of ten and put him to work in the boot-making shop that now supported the family. Sick to death of ten-hour days spent pegging the soles of cowhide fisherman’s boots and of his father’s joyless rule, Slocum escaped to a schooner, fishing in the local waters, when he was fourteen. Lasting liberation only came in 1860, after his gentle mother died and little remained to hold him to his home. In that year, at the age of sixteen, he and a young friend shipped before the mast in a clumsy lumber carrier bound for Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter working a passage to England, Slocum joined the British ship \u003ci\u003eTanjore\u003c\/i\u003e as an ordinary seaman on a voyage to China and the East Indies. There, ill and weakened by overwork and brutal treatment, he was left at the fever hospital in Batavia, notorious as a graveyard of seamen. By good luck, the captain of a steamship rescued him, brought him back to health, and employed him on trading trips around the Far East. Before long, Slocum was again in England and embarked on another voyage to the Dutch East Indies. Throughout these first two years at sea, Slocum, unlike most of his shipmates, had stayed sober, saved his money, and applied himself to the study of navigation. His reward came on this voyage when, at the age of eighteen, he was promoted to second mate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled out to 180 pounds and hardened by experience, he worked his way up to chief mate on British vessels in the coal and grain trade between the British Isles and San Francisco, narrowly surviving a fall from the upper topsail yard in the mid-Atlantic. In 1865, he decided to make San Francisco his home port and applied for United States citizenship. After a few years of boat building, salmon fishing, and sea-otter hunting on the Northwest coast, in 1869 he was given command of a schooner plying between San Francisco and Seattle. In 1870, he was made master of the bark \u003ci\u003eWashington\u003c\/i\u003e, bound for Sydney, Australia, with a general cargo, and then for Cook Inlet, Alaska, to fish for salmon. All in all, it was a highly respectable start to a career in the late days of merchant sail, when the regular routes and the valuable freights were being monopolized by steamships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Sydney and now marriageable, Slocum met the love of his life, the twenty-year-old Virginia Walker, the American-born daughter of an immigrant stationer. Immediately after their wedding in January 1871, Virginia moved aboard the \u003ci\u003eWashington\u003c\/i\u003e and left her home forever. Golden-eyed and boasting a Leni-Lenape ancestor, she was a dead shot with either rifle or pistol. For the remainder of her life she followed Slocum in his wanderings from ship to ship, bearing and educating his children, enduring storm and mutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the \u003ci\u003eWashington\u003c\/i\u003e was wrecked on the Alaskan coast, Slocum was given command of two other vessels, in which he and his growing family traveled on trading voyages throughout the Pacific and China Sea. After a stint of ship-building under primitive and dangerous conditions on the shores of Subic Bay in the Philippines, he had enough capital to become an owner, first of the little schooner \u003ci\u003ePato\u003c\/i\u003e and then of the fifty-six-year-old ship \u003ci\u003eAmethyst\u003c\/i\u003e, picking up\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303881330917,"sku":"NP9780140437362","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140437362.jpg?v=1767736038","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sailing-alone-around-the-world-isbn-9780140437362","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}