Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocumwas the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth20 February 1844
CountryCanada
building good-work vessel
Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
adventure stories funny-travel
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
patience philosophical eight
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
party rain cities
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
boston nuts long
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
men sea-breeze sailing
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
journey boston flesh
Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.
sea sailing world
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
steps well-known wells
Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
lying land one-direction
...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.
sea ships remember
Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
jumping wind sea
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves
beautiful men sea
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
sea ships firsts
As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.