Sailing Alone Around The World

Joshua Slocum (1824 - 1909)

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km).

In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, "boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once". (Summary by Alan Chant and Wikipedia)

Genre(s): Travel & Geography, Memoirs

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Chapter 01 Alan Chant
00:16:08
Play 02 Chapter 02 Alan Chant
00:19:38
Play 03 Chapter 03 Alan Chant
00:21:45
Play 04 Chapter 04 Alan Chant
00:21:41
Play 05 Chapter 05 Alan Chant
00:28:21
Play 06 Chapter 06 Alan Chant
00:22:14
Play 07 Chapter 07 Alan Chant
00:25:26
Play 08 Chapter 08 Alan Chant
00:19:14
Play 09 Chapter 09 Alan Chant
00:24:12
Play 10 Chapter 10 Alan Chant
00:19:52
Play 11 Chapter 11 Alan Chant
00:19:10
Play 12 Chapter 12 Alan Chant
00:20:51
Play 13 Chapter 13 Alan Chant
00:23:40
Play 14 Chapter 14 Alan Chant
00:24:22
Play 15 Chapter 15 Alan Chant
00:28:50
Play 16 Chapter 16 Alan Chant
00:28:59
Play 17 Chapter 17 Alan Chant
00:22:59
Play 18 Chapter 18 Alan Chant
00:17:34
Play 19 Chapter 19 Alan Chant
00:20:56
Play 20 Chapter 20 Alan Chant
00:15:45
Play 21 Chapter 21 Alan Chant
00:15:07
Play 22 Appendix Alan Chant
00:15:37