Capt. Joshua Slocum

Capt. Joshua Slocum

Author: Victor Slocum

Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780924486524

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Victor Slocum is the son of Captain Joshua Slocum.


The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World

The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World

Author: Joshua Slocum

Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 1574092758

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Joshua Slocum¿s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context that will make Slocum¿s masterpiece more accessible to today¿s readers¿sailors and landlubbers alike.


A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World

A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World

Author: Stan Grayson

Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0884485501

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The product of years of research, A Man for All Oceans is the most comprehensive biography of Slocum ever published, and the first written by a small-boat sailor. Author/historian Grayson uncovered previously unknown original source materials to shed new light on one of history’s greatest sailors while answering questions that have been asked ever since the publication of Sailing Alone. In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocum’s book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Here is the real story of Slocum’s Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocum’s uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailor’s perspective to Slocum’s solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreau’s Walden and shows that Slocum’s simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured today’s emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocum’s world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.


Sailing Alone Around the World

Sailing Alone Around the World

Author: Joshua Slocum

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-08-31

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0713679352

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Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. This work offers Slocum's account of his epic voyage. It is intended for admirers of his legendary achievement.


Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum

Author: Quentin Casey

Publisher: Stories of Our Past

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781771081429

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The newest title in the Stories of our Past series tells the tale of the Brier Island boy who went to sea at sixteen and never looked back. The first person to circumnavigate the globe alone, Captain Joshua Slocum has remained a nautical icon since the publication of Sailing Alone Around the World in 1900. In Joshua Slocum, journalist Quentin Casey takes readers from the treasured sea captain's humble upbringing on Westport, Brier Island, through his lifelong quest for adventure on the sea. Follow Slocum's career from ordinary seaman to master of celestial navigation, and experience a rare look into his personal life, trouble on and off the sea, and his mysterious disappearance. Includes sidebar features on little-known Slocum facts and over 60 images, including photographs, maps, and illustrations.


The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

Author: Joshua Slocum

Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9780911378559

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This definitive edition of all of Captain Joshua Slocum's writings is now being reissued in time for the 100th anniversary of Slocum's epic singlehanded voyage.


Stobart

Stobart

Author: John Stobart

Publisher: E P Dutton

Published: 1985-11-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780525244370

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Sixty of the celebrated marine artist's paintings capture the rich heritage of the golden era of commercial sailing and the ships, steamboats, whalers, and colorful ports of nineteenth-century America


Alone at Sea

Alone at Sea

Author: Ann Spencer

Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. ; [Willowdale, Ont.] : Firefly Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781552093948

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In 1895, Nova Scotia-born Joshua Slocum embarked on a three-year 46,000-mile solo circumnavigation of the globe, aboard a refitted oyster sloop. Sailing through pirate-infested waters, confronting the sea at its most cruel, surviving beachings and wrestling with the demons of solitude, Joshua Slocum achieved a voyage that will forever rank among the epic feats of seamanship.


Desperate Voyage

Desperate Voyage

Author: John Caldwell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1493049372

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In May 1946 John Caldwell set out to sail from Panama to Sydney to reunite with his wife who he hadn't seen for more than a year. Eager to reach his destination and unable to secure any other form of transport, he had to resort to singlehanded seamanship. After an ignominious scene in the harbor, where a tangled anchor led him to take an early dip, he spent ten days learning the rudiments of navigation and sailing from a book, before embarking on the 9,000 mile journey aboard the 20-foot Pagan. Ahead lay a mission that was to reveal in him elements not only of astounding courage and determination, but also of incredible foolhardiness. Within 500 miles of Panama John Caldwell had already been shipwrecked once and had his boat's engine and cockpit destroyed by an angry shark. Indefatigable, he decided to press on towards his goal.He endured the terrors and discomforts of life on the high seas and enjoyed the triumphs of fighting and winning against the elements. This is more than an exciting tale of sea-adventure. It is as compelling and unpredictable as a thriller. It is the story, witty and moving, of a man, motivated initially by love, and ultimately by his own fierce determination to survive.