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.
Victor Slocum is the son of Captain Joshua Slocum.
Slocum had plans for making the most of the land at Fag End, or Rudder Ranch as he jokingly referred to his property in a letter to Clifton Johnson. And Johnson in his article for Outing was impressed by how quickly the old seadog ...
... who had broken ranks with their fellows, claimed that they had done so because the ship was not ready to sail. In response, the mate took the comparatively mild step of putting them on reduced rations. (Though mild in comparison ...
A dramatic portrait of the legendary sea commander traces his rapid rise from an uneducated Dickensian childhood in mid-19th-century Nova Scotia to the leader of ships that experienced high-danger adventures, including a first documented ...
Great Voyages in Small Boats: Solo Circumnavigations
Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The fifty-five day voyage of Joshua Slocum and his family back to the United States is chronicled in this book, with the high and low points of their epic adventure mentioned.