He and a friend signed on at Halifax as ordinary seamen on a merchant ship bound for Dublin, Ireland. In 1860, after the birth of the eleventh Slocombe (Joshua changed the spelling of his last name later in his life) child and the subsequent death of his kindly mother, Joshua, then sixteen, left home for good. He made several attempts to run away from home, finally succeeding, at age fourteen, by hiring on as a cabin boy and cook on a fishing schooner, but he soon returned home. He yearned for a life of adventure at sea, away from his demanding father and his increasingly chaotic life at home among so many brothers and sisters. However, the boy found the scent of salt air much more alluring than the smell of shoe leather. His father, a stern man and strict disciplinarian, took up making leather boots for the local fishermen, and Joshua helped in the shop. Joshua Slocum was born on Februin Mount Hanley, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia (officially recorded as Wilmot Station), a community on the North Mountain within sight of the Bay of Fundy. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray.
In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller. He was a Nova Scotian born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, “boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once.”įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit Slocum (Febru– on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on Jhaving circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km). On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. Librivox recording of Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum.
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