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'''Sailing Alone Around the World''' is the title of the book in which ] described his epic single-handed circumnavigation of the world aboard the sloop '']'', the first voyage of its kind. | ||
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| Captain Slocum, a highly experienced navigator and captain, and erstwile ship-owener, rebuilt the ''Spray'' in a field at Fairhaven, New Bedford, from local timbers between 1892 and 1894. | |||
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| ==The Book== | ==The Book== | ||
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Sailing Alone Around the World is the title of the book in which Joshua Slocum described his epic single-handed circumnavigation of the world aboard the sloop Spray, the first voyage of its kind.
Background
Captain Slocum, a highly experienced navigator and captain, and erstwile ship-owener, rebuilt the Spray in a field at Fairhaven, New Bedford, from local timbers between 1892 and 1894.
The Book
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Plot summary
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Footnotes
External links
The text from the 1894 Chapman and Hall edition may be found in Project Gutenberg.
There is also an unabridged audio recording of the book on the Librivox web site.
See also Circumnavigation, Travel Literature.