Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone, and he wrote a memoir about his journey called Sailing Alone Around the World. The memoir was published in 1900 and became an international best-seller. Slocum completed his three-year solo circumnavigation in 1898 sailing his 37-foot sloop, the Spray, for more than 46,000 …
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