Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World

by Joshua Capt. Slocum, Rod Scher (Editor)

Overview

Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, and clarification that will make Slocum's masterpiece more accessible to today's readers-sailors and landlubbers alike. Scher has also added fascinating "In the News" sidebars throughout the text, which help bring to life the historical events surrounding the narrative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574092752
Publisher:	Sheridan House, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/01/2009
Edition description:	Annotated
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	408,793
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Editorial Reviews

In this annotated account of the world's first solo circumnavigation, Rod Scher's material helps us understand the world of 1895 so we can better appreciate author Joshua Slocum's accomplishment. If I could read only one boating book this year, I'd choose this one.

The Ensign

(Slocum) sailed solo around the world in 1895-8 in his 37-foot sloop SPRAY and wrote this classic account of his adventures...After (Slocum's) historic and successful voyage, his book makes him a national hero. Some years later, he sets off again in SPRAY heading for the Amazon River; sadly he was never heard of again....It was interesting to read...Rod Scher's annotations as side notes. Rod's commentary enhances the original script adding greater meaning to each incident.

Royal Navy Sailing Association

Captain Joshua Slocum's Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World is annotated by Rod Scher, a teacher/journalist who provides explanations, commentary, and history to make Slocum's saga more accessible to modern readers. This clarification of Slocum's voyage in his wooden SPRAY packs in side bars of detail and enhances every page. Nautical libraries need this.

Bookwatch

(Slocum) sailed solo around the world in 1895-8 in his 37-foot sloop SPRAY and wrote this classic account of his adventures...After (Slocum's) historic and successful voyage, his book makes him a national hero. Some years later, he sets off again in SPRAY heading for the Amazon River; sadly he was never heard of again....It was interesting to read...Rod Scher's annotations as side notes. Rod's commentary enhances the original script adding greater meaning to each incident.

Royal Naval Sailing Association

A literate and absorbing yarn published in 1900 and still in print. . . [Slocum's] story is a convincing tale of the intelligence, skill and fortitude that drove a master navigator.

New York Times

A classic book. . . . Slocum's writing is as elegant as his thirty-seven-foot sloop, SPRAY, whose crossing of the Atlantic he describes vividly.

New Yorker

As a writer Slocum is given to plain understatement, dry wit, wry humor and Yankee observations about nature that led some to call him a 'sea-locked Thoreau.' . . . He offers descriptive glances at the sea, in storm or calm, that can rival those of Joseph Conrad.

Smithsonian