Sailing Alone Around the World Annotated and Illustrated

December 2, Sold by: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 6 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Enotation is electronic annotation, where instead of footnotes or endnotes, there are embedded links in the text of an e-book. A book like Slocum's which contains a fair amount of sailing jargon and many geographical references is a perfect candidate for eNotation.

Before discussing this edition, however, a few words on Sailing Alone Around the World are in order. In , Joshua Slocum was as ship's captain at loose ends in the last days of sail. He rebuilt a 37' gaff rigged oyster sloop named Spray, and proceeded to sail it around the world alone, the first person ever to do so. His book about the voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, is a nautical classic. I would argue that it is a literary classic, period. Slocum's direct, deceptively simple yet vivid language reminds me of Mark Twain.

If you haven't read Slocum, you should. This edition might not be bad place to start. The challenge for an annotater, or in this case an eNotator, is selecting the right words and phrases to annotate. Beyond that, it is important to keep the annotations as concise possible so as not to distract too much from book itself.

Overall, Thomerson does a very good job. The eNotatations range from short definitions to slightly longer summaries. For example - in chapter 3, after eight days at sea Slocum sights a sail. One point is If you are familiar with the nautical jargon, you can just keep reading. If you are less so, reading the enotation is quick and easy and doesn't distract from the reading itself. There are also numerous notations tied to geography, idiomatic phrases and bits of history.

Often the enotations are just fun in their own right. For sufficient reasons, I left that timepiece at home, where the Dutchman left his anchor. Sailing without stop forever doesn't require an anchor, which the Dutchman, therefore, left at home. The annotations can also add context.

Two other features are included in this edition.

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The original illustrations are included, which can be blown up to full screen size with a click, a feature not usually available on a Kindle book. Also each paragraph is numbered making it easier to keep track of if reading as part of a book club or study group. Slocum's achievements and books are amazing.

However, since they take place in the late s, and involve sailing, there are many, many terms which most people reading them today don't know. That can make the reading tedious. But, with an instant ability to see what each term means, the real impact of the story and Slocum's accomplishment comes through. He was the first person to sail around the world alone.

A beautifully written yarn from start to finish, with plenty of humor, excitement, and interesting characters throughout. A must read book! See all 6 reviews. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? Sailing alone around the world: A voyage beyond imagination Kindle Edition.

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Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum. The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas — the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them all: Paperback , pages.

Published June 1st by Penguin Classics first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Sailing Alone around the World , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Sailing Alone around the World. Lists with This Book. Sep 05, Christopher rated it really liked it Shelves: Check out how awesome this Joshua Slocum dude is. He's old, he's on a boat, he's got a badass straw hat. He doesn't care that he looks like a doofus with it on, which makes him that much cooler. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world alone and that means to sail all the way around it, for you greenhorn scallawags out there.

He Old Man and the Sea -ed it up, if you'll allow me the liberty of verbing nouns. There are people today who do cool stuff like this. But they don't do it with nearly the style of this guy. Katie Spotz is a person, barely a score old, who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean by herself. But the difference is that she is merely accomplishing a feat of endurance. If she ever writes a memoir, this is what it will be: My arms got tired and I got sunburned and I was really thirsty too and lonely.

Let me just try to summarize a few of the highlights: I tried to keep a goat on board but he ate the only map I had. I met a group of savages who had never seen a white guy and some of them wanted to eat me and some of them wanted to worship me. I don't even use a compass; I just point myself in the direction I think my destination is and hope I get lucky. Is there nothing left to explore in the world? I almost forgot to mention one of the most compelling things about this dude. He was on a routine voyage alone to South America and he never returned.

Everyone thinks his ship must have been sunk by a whale, because he was too great a sailor and his boat was too seaworthy for any other explanation to be conceivable. But my guess is that he just decided he didn't want to come back. I'm willing to bet that he's still out there, sailing the seas and if you were to run into him today, he'd be years old, but he'd look no more than a day over View all 19 comments. Jun 16, Joshua Rigsby rated it really liked it Shelves: In a word, this book is delightful.

The author, Joshua Slocum, did something truly remarkable. He was the first human being to ever sail alone around the world. Yet, perhaps the best part of this story is his style of presentation. Slocum is laid back, self-effacing, and actually quite funny. Some of the great lines were, "My singing has never inspired envy in others. Even though he has done something amazing, something no one had ever done in history, he credits most of the success to his craft, the Spray , personifying her and congratulating her when things go well, and blaming himself when they do not.

He also personifies the sense of good luck and fortune he experiences on several occasions in the captain of the Pinta who comes to his aid on several occasions. Slocum just seems to be an all around great guy. Children flock to him, heads of state entertain him, and friends give him gifts wherever he goes. He can spin a good yarn, and has every right to make up grandiose sea stories along with the best of sailors. As I've said, this book was delightful. This is the type of book that reaches out to you. I am not a sailor and much as I love and respect the sea, I usually get sea-sick.

But it was an adventure to read this book, which is written with a precision and candidness that draws one to the tale. Slocum didn't just accomplish an incredible feat, he left a written record of an age long gone. He writes of cultures that have now disappeared amidst the wave of consumerism. When he is at sea, I swear you can smell the salt air and hear the ocean.

His tortuous trip via the Straits of Magellan is particularly spellbinding. I justify five stars for a book when I get so absorbed, my meal turns cold. Such a book is this. Thar be splendor here. View all 3 comments. I sailed as freighter and trader principally to China, Australia, and Japan, and among the Spice Islands. Mine was not the sort of life to make one long to coil up one's ropes on land, the customs and ways of which I had finally almost forgotten. He departed from the USA in , when he was Azores, Gibraltar, Brazil and other South America nations, then the Pacific ocean and Australia, are the initial itinerary landmarks.

Next, back to the west, till Saint Helena isle where Napoleon had been in prison. The trip ended in Fairhaven USA. Only in , was he declared "legally dead". Sep 06, Michael rated it liked it Recommends it for: This used to be required reading for Massachusetts high school students. Joshua Slocum was the first to sail solo around the world. Still crazy to this day.

The story was great in detail and local interest for the places it dealt with. I love Slocum's writing at points, but like Moby Dick, at other times I feel I'm just pushing through to get to the good parts again. His historical detail and places he visits is not only a good story worth reading, but if you think about it for a moment, the tim This used to be required reading for Massachusetts high school students.

His historical detail and places he visits is not only a good story worth reading, but if you think about it for a moment, the time at which he visits some of these islands is a record which was thereafter erased by modern progress. He is a unique character, and if you grew up on Cape Cod, or have ties to Nova Scotia, the story should hold special interest because of Slocum's origins. It also deals with the tragic death of his first wife, later his son, something he never overcomes and in his later years is probably still a motivating force for him to fly solo in the end. Oct 01, James Elliot Leighton rated it it was amazing.

This was one of the most influential books that I have ever read.

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I read it while still in my teens. Growing up in a seafaring Naval family I was able to sail from age eight. At eighteen, when other teens were looking for their first car, I bought from an eighty-two year old widow my first yacht, a , wooden hulled A Class gaff rigged sloop that had sunk at its moorings during a storm.

With a lot of help, I raised it, refurbished it, and lived on it for the next eighteen months. I then jo This was one of the most influential books that I have ever read. I then joined the Navy and during my enlistment it once again sank during a storm. This time it was past salvage. After leaving the Navy I bought a Roberts Ketch and lived and sailed on it for twelve years.

I have not circumnavigated the world in one pass, but I have sailed the Coral Sea - Pacific, North and South, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic and ventured but not thoroughly explored into the Antarctic. I doubt that I would have done any of this if not for the influence this book had upon me. I love the book and respect and admire Joshua Slocum.

Like most of his era, he writes well good schooling and tells a good story. I had too high expectations for this one, I guess. And it's not a good sign. Mar 31, Mike rated it liked it Shelves: For a trip with so much time at sea and so little ashore, Captain Slocum paints with some amazing words. This was, in my mind, so much easier to read and enjoy than either Gulliver's Travels or Robinson Crusoe , and at least as adventurous.

My Adventure to Every Country on Earth. Nov 03, Tim rated it it was amazing. Joshua Slocum, a New England sea captain, in his retirement built a sloop that he named the Spray. In it he set out in on a solo journey around the world. Three years later he again landed in New England having traveled some 46, miles circumnavigating the globe.

This little book is his account of the journey. The style of the man and his writing is direct, humble, educated and thoughtful, the account of a man with oceans of schooling but little of the carefully prescribed learning prized Joshua Slocum, a New England sea captain, in his retirement built a sloop that he named the Spray. The style of the man and his writing is direct, humble, educated and thoughtful, the account of a man with oceans of schooling but little of the carefully prescribed learning prized today.

His journey, his knowledge, his character connect him to the people, places, and creatures - and especially the sea itself - as he finds these at every point along his winding path. Even after more than a century, Slocum's journey and his tale give us a glimpse of the vast spaces of this remarkable planet and the remarkable human itch across its weathered skin. Dec 29, Daniel Villines rated it liked it. One person's adventure is not necessarily another person's adventure. Sailing Alone Around the World is Joshua Slocum's self-narrated account of his solo voyage around the world in the 's.

Everything about his voyage is worthy of being told. His voyage was made without radio, radar, GPS systems, or aircraft at the tail end of 19th Century. When Slocum sailed out over the horizon he was alone, known to no one, and to perish meant that he would simply disappear. But his narrative comes across a One person's adventure is not necessarily another person's adventure. Slocum was too good at sailing. He avoided many hardships and mishaps due to his experience. The overall result is a narrative full of story but short on the types of insights that can only be gained through through adversity.

The human abilities to learn, adapt, and overcome are the things that make an adventure. Overall, this is a wonderfully historical book, just not wonderfully adventurous. May 31, Laura rated it it was ok Shelves: I picked this book off the shelf a few years back, because I realized it was the story behind a song that loved. This book really didn't do anything for me. There was enough technical jargon to be confusing to a newbie like me to the sailing world, but not enough to give any real information on how he sailed.

In fact, I'm not fully sure how he filled so many pages, because it felt like he hadn't said anything by the time I reached the end. It seemed to mostly be a story of hopping from port to p I picked this book off the shelf a few years back, because I realized it was the story behind a song that loved. It seemed to mostly be a story of hopping from port to port and meeting with the local dignitaries in each one. Where there could have been adventure, his "modesty" kept him from going into detail aside from making it clear all troubles were easily dispatched.

There were occasional great anecdotes, such as the gift of a goat proceeding to gobble up his lines and charts, or the use of carpet tacks as defensive fortifications. This must have been a hell of a voyage. Clearly he is an incredible sailor. I could only wish he were as good a writer.

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Mar 03, Judy rated it it was amazing Recommended to Judy by: I'm not going to say much about this book because I don't have enough superlatives. Simply said, if you want to read or listen, in my case to an adventure memoir that takes you around the world, is narrated by a grandfather-like character and has dry wit, this is your book. I would not be surprised if I picked it up again.

Joshua Slocum is exactly the sort of person you want to sit down and have a drink with. He is humble, hilarious, and full of great stories.



Considering this is a book about navigation, it is remarkably understandable and intriguing. I would highly recommend this one to teenage boys who like adventure and any adult who loves a good, true, seafaring story. Well worth the time. Though I enjoyed this as an audio book, I think it might have been easier to physically read it, as I could have used a m Joshua Slocum is exactly the sort of person you want to sit down and have a drink with. Though I enjoyed this as an audio book, I think it might have been easier to physically read it, as I could have used a map or picture of the boat Jun 07, Jennifer rated it it was amazing Shelves: Slocum is my new hero!

His dry humor and positive attitude make the book so entertaining to read, and his reports of the places he visited are simply magical. Jan 31, Bill Rogers rated it really liked it. The edition I read was the free Gutenberg Project electronic text, an edition not listed here. The text was adequate, but like many free ebooks it had been made by optical character recognition from an old library book and had many typographic errors. Sailing anywhere alone is dangerous enough to be exciting, even if you don't leave sight of land. Sailing alone around the world is a tremendous accomplishment even today.

Imagine, then, what it would have been like to do it in the late 19th C Note: Imagine, then, what it would have been like to do it in the late 19th Century, without electronic navigation, a radio, an outboard motor for getting in and out of ports, or even a good clock. Well, you don't have to imagine it, because between April and June Captain Joshua Slocum made the trip, and in he wrote a book about it.