Sentences with phrase «sail around the world alone»

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone.

By Robert P. Poindexter Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone.

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Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

But he was also becoming a serious sailor, enamored of Joshua Slocum's 1900 memoir, «Sailing Alone Around the World.»

He wrote several books during his lifetime, but «Sailing Alone Around the World» was probably his most famous work.