With pirates, storms, and plenty of adventure, this book is one of National Geographic Adventure Magazine's "Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time." It is also ranked #7 on Outside Magazine's 25 Best Adventure Books.
Sailing Alone Around the World (1899) is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the ship "Spray." Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone, the book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers. His journey covered 46,000 miles and took three years.
The trip itinerary went as follows: Fairhaven, Boston, Gloucester, Nova Scotia, Azores, Gibraltar, (Morocco), Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Maldonado, Montevideo, Strait of Magellan, Cockburn Channel, Port Angosto, Juan Fernandez, Marquesas, Samoa, Fiji, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Cooktown, Christmas Island, Keeling Cocos, Rodrigues, Mauritius, Durban, Cape Town, (Transvaal), St Helena, Ascension Island, Devil's Island, Trinidad, Grenada, Newport, Fairhaven.
Highlights of the journey included perils of sailing blue water such as fog, gales, danger of collision, loneliness, doldrums, navigation, fatigue, gear failure. Other perils of coastal navigation included pirates, attack by 'savages', embayed, shoals and coral seas, stranding, shipwreck. In Tierra del Fuego he was warned that he might be attacked by the Yahgan Indians in the night, so he sprinkled thumbtacks on the deck, and awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of yelps of pain.
In 1909, he put to sea again. This time, he disappeared.
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