Sailing Alone Around the World (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

316 Pages·2009·14.25 MB·English

by  Joshua Slocum

Table of Contents

From the Pages of Sailing Alone Around the World
Title Page
Copyright Page
Joshua Slocums
The World of Joshua Slocum and Sailing Alone Around the World
Introduction
Dedication

CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI

APPENDIX - Lines and Sail-Plan of the Spray
Endnotes
Glossary of Nautical Terms
Inspired by
Comments & Questions
For Further Reading
From the Pages of Sailing Alone Around the World
The wonderful sea charmed me from the first. (page 17)

The Spray’s dimensions were, when finished, thirty-six feet nine inches long,
over all, fourteen feet two inches wide, and four feet two inches deep in the hold.
(page 22)

During these days a feeling of awe crept over me. My memory worked with
startling power. The ominous, the insignificant, the great, the small, the
wonderful, the commonplace—all appeared before my mental vision in magical
succession. Pages of my history were recalled which had been so long forgotten
that they seemed to belong to a previous existence. I heard all the voices of the
past laughing, crying, telling what I had heard them tell in many corners of the
earth. (page 36)

I saw clearly that if I failed now all might be lost. I sprang from the oars to my
feet, and lifting the anchor above my head, threw it clear just as she was turning
over. I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly
remembered that I could not swim. (page 66)

“Hurrah for the Spray!” I shouted to seals, sea-gulls, and penguins; for there
were no other living creatures about, and she had weathered all the dangers of
Cape Horn. (page 113)
At last she reached port in safety, and there at 1 A. M. on June 27, 1898, cast
anchor, after the cruise of more than forty-six thousand miles round the world,
during an absence of three years and two months, with two days over for coming
up. (pages 222-223)

The days passed happily with me wherever my ship sailed. (page 236)
The Spray From a photograph taken in Australian waters.

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Sailing Alone Around the World was first published in 1900.

Published in 2005 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction,
Notes, Biography, Chronology, Glossary, Inspired By,
Comments & Questions, and For Further Reading.

Introduction, Notes, Glossary of Nautical Terms, and For Further Reading
Copyright © 2005 by Dennis A. Berthold.

Note on Joshua Slocum, The World of Joshua Slocum and Sailing Alone Around the World, Three Maps of
Slocum’s Voyage, Inspired by Sailing Alone
Around the World, and Comments & Questions
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