{"product_id":"sailing-alone-around-the-world","title":"Sailing Alone Around the World","description":"Used Paperback in Good condition. The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas-the first person to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly. \u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1900, Joshua 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 \"Spray\" in 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 courage, skill, and determination. \"Sailing Alone Around the World\" 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 Henry (\"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?\") Stanley in South Africa. A century later, Slocum's incomparable book endures as one of the greatest narratives of adventure ever written.","brand":"Joshua Slocum","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":52727197434139,"sku":"mon0000796004","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/2282443482361.jpg?v=1785867955","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/sailing-alone-around-the-world","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}