A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World

摘要

Capt. Joshua Slocum is possibly the most widely known sea captain and small-boat sailor ever to have lived. His book Sailing Alone Around the World is not only a favorite among sailors but also has long enjoyed a wider audience thanks to its tales of high adventure and its easily accessible, direct narrative style, which is often cited among the best examples of its type. Generations of readers, sailors and non-sailors alike, have been inspired by that classic text. Slocum's feats of seamanship and navigation are even today widely admired among cruising sailors. Indeed, he was the mold from which the modern idea of the "cruising sailor" was formed.