With Spencer's engaging text and peppered with Slocum's own journal entries, Alone At Sea is captivating reading for anyone interested in sailing, nautical history, travel and the soul of a true adventurer. She uncovered new facts, documents and photographs now published here. Ann Spencer spent years poring over the sailor's own journals and historical records buried in libraries and archives throughout New England and the Maritimes. Slocum pondered his invisibility with a growing awareness of his insignificance in the 'In the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on a straw in the midst of the elements.'' This is the first original full-scale biography of Joshua Slocum in over 40 years. He and the Spray were one small speck on an all-encompassing sea, invisible to the rest of the world. Alone At Sea is his 'On his first solo day, Slocum found himself enveloped by fog so thick 'one could almost stand on it.' It was as if his loneliness had been made visible as the thick fog 'lowered over the sea like a pall.'. His boat, a refitted oyster sloop called Spray, took him through pirate-infested waters and horrific storms amidst the ghosts and demons of 36 months of solitude. In 1895, Joshua Slocum embarked on a three-year, 46,000-mile solo circumnavigation of the globe. ' What would it be like to sail around the world by yourself, especially without the telecommunications and technical equipment we have today? Alone At Sea takes readers on such a thrilling journey. She shook in every timber and reeled under the weight of the sea. The mountain of water submerged my vessel. 'I had only a moment to get all sail down and myself upon the peak halliards, out of danger, when I saw the mighty crest towering masthead-high above me.

Slocum sail around the world