As the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone, Captain Joshua Slocum is celebrated as the ?patron saint of small-boat voyagers, navigators, and adventurers all over the world? (Joshua Slocum Society), and heralded as the penultimate example of independent marine navigation at a time when the invention of steam had nearly put an end to the Golden Age of Sail. His timeless account,�Sailing Alone Around the World, still coveted by sailors and thrill-seekers alike, has continued to inspire scores of lone adventurers, and challenged countless readers to change their lives since its initial publication in 1900.
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Joshua Slocum
Born in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, in 1844 to a lighthouse keeper�s daughter and jack-of-all-trades, Joshua Slocum was raised with the sea. To escape the burder of his father�s failing business and mother�s death, Slocum left home at age sixteen as an ordinary seaman on a merchant ship. But his life at sea was to be anything but ordinary.
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