"Incredible story of a mid-life crisis taken to extremes. His writing style is fast paced, witty, and exhilarating, an absorbing match to his harrowing adventures-adventures that included being chased by Moorish pirates off Gibraltar escaping a fleet of hostile canoes being submerged by a great wave off the Patagonian coast an encounter with Black Pedro, “the worst murderer in Tierra del Fuego” and foiling a nocturnal attack by savages by strewing carpet tacks on the Spray’s deck. Whether Slocum was more accomplished as a writer or sailor is hard to say. This is Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage of the Spray. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world.
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