Sailing Alone around the World Audiobook (Free)

Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless Fresh England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to demonstrate that a man could sail alone all over the world. Just a little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. This is Slocum’s very own account of his exceptional adventures through the historic voyage from the Spray.

Whether Slocum was more accomplished like a writer or sailor is hard to say. His writing design is overly busy, witty, and exhilarating, an absorbing match to his harrowing adventures-adventures that included being chased by Moorish pirates off Gibraltar; escaping a fleet of hostile canoes; getting submerged by an excellent wave off the Patagonian coast; an encounter with Black Pedro, “the most severe murderer in Tierra del Fuego”; and foiling a nocturnal assault by savages by strewing floor covering tacks for the Spray’s deck.