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# Sailing Alone Around the World Paperback – 17 Nov. 2015

**Brand:** joshua slocum
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- **What is this?** Sailing Alone Around the World Paperback – 17 Nov. 2015 by joshua slocum
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wonderful inspiring book
  

*by B***A on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2017*

To say this book is very interesting is an understatement. To think that more than a hundred years ago Capt Slocum sailed without GPS and Navtex, no laptop navigational chart software, his difficulties in acquiring a chronometer, no apps to predict wind direction and strength, is just so inspirational. In addition, Capt Slocum has a flair for writing! His prose at times was amazing, in the early sections as he sets off on his voyage, he says "waves dancing joyously across the bay met her coming out of the harbour to dash them into myriads of sparkling gems..." and "the day was perfect, the sunlight clear and strong. Every particle of water thrown in the air became a gem., and the Spray bounding ahead snatched necklace after necklace from the sea and as often threw them away"...and later another "when I sang a favourite chant a porpoise jumped up from the water higher than the bowsprit!"... Also amazing was how in several places where he visited people seemed to already know he was on a world voyage, all in an age where communications were at snails pace with just postal delivery from place to pace (on horseback??). Hats off to how he managed to keep the boat on the same track without steering for extraordinary distances and time lengths,several hundred miles and weeks, he accomplished by trimming and setting the sails to do was a testament of his experience and sailing abilities. Did he have a secretly hidden away Aries wind vane (lol). After all he was not entirely new to sailing...he was already an accomplished sailor a master mariner by profession...yet admitted to the world his mistakes e.g. taking the paint off another boat while setting off in limited room. He used copper paint on the bottom hull shows his wisdom, you can learn so much from reading this book, amusing items pop up like his arrangements for washing (half a dory!), not that anyone would plan to do that! His respect that he showed to peoples he met (unlike some very famous mariners and explorers of the past who suffered the consequences) showed the strength of his character and humanity. Capt Slocum, we who have read your book, salute you.

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    This book has no illustrations.
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2017*

This version has NO illustrations at all.  No drawings of the Spray, no chart(s)  to indicate the route, no photos and none of the delightful Fogarty illustrations that I have seen in other versions.  It is of course a marvelous read as I already knew and I bought this for someone else as a present.  This edition is a sad version and I am returning it.  Specifically If you look at the appendix for the body plan and Lines and sail plan of the 'Spray' , detail of the self steering,  the  cabin layout & accommodation, they have put all the text and cut all six  plans that the text describes.  There are other editions  of this great yarn, which I think are far preferable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The greatest yachtsman of all time
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2018*

Having read a dozen or so accounts of circumnavigators, including the likes of Robin Knox-Johnston, Hall Roth and Laura Dekker - all heroes of mine - I really believe Joshua Slocum was in a league of his own. With no experience of sailing a sloop before setting off on his three year voyage, he not only made the sailing itself seem effortless, but fills his pages with self-deprecating humour that made me laugh out loud again and again. From his hilarious encounters with hapless Fuegian pirates, to the goat which devoured Joshua's ropes, hat and charts, and the sea port which thought the devil himself had sailed in, every chapter of this beautifully written book is a delight to read.

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