Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum rebuilt a rotting oyster boat and became the first person to sail around the world alone. He writes about it drily, as though it were a long errand.
Things worth knowing
- Delirious with fever, Slocum comes on deck to find a tall stranger at the helm who says he is the pilot of the Pinta, come to steer the Spray through the night.
- The voyage covered 46,000 miles in three years, two months and two days, ending at Newport, Rhode Island in June 1898.
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1 Chapter One 10 min
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2 Chapter Two 12 min
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3 Chapter Three 13 min
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4 Chapter Four 14 min
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5 Chapter Five 19 min
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6 Chapter Six 15 min
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7 Chapter Seven 18 min
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8 Chapter Eight 12 min
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9 Chapter Nine 16 min
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10 Chapter Ten 13 min
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11 Chapter Eleven 13 min
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12 Chapter Twelve 14 min
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13 Chapter Thirteen 16 min
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14 Chapter Fourteen 16 min
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15 Chapter Fifteen 19 min
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16 Chapter Sixteen 18 min
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17 Chapter Seventeen 16 min
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18 Chapter Eighteen 11 min
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19 Chapter Nineteen 14 min
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20 Chapter Twenty 10 min
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21 Chapter Twenty-One 20 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1900, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1909, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: Image from book, artist unknown, 1900.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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