Capt. Joshua Slocum: The Life and Voyages of the America's Best Known Sailor

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Summary: A welcome prefeace to Joshua Slocum's 'lone' journey
Review: Having read SAILING ALONE AR0UND THE WORLD, I found Victor's book enlighening. He is not the writer his father was, but his recollections fill out the years of preparation leading eventually to his father's 'sailing alone around the world.' If it lacks the poetic style of his father, it does refer to his mother and ships owned and sailed by his father which lends romance(both senses)and understanding to the Captain. Joshua Slocum was a true man of the sea whose self-taught knowledge made him capable of deeds covering the gamet of seamanship. One can not read the chapter about the LIBERDADE, a canoe of hardly more than 30 feet in length built in the wilds of Brazil with ingenuity unknown today and sailed over 5,000 miles to Washington D.C., without a sense of wonder at the achievment. If you enjoy success stories, you will love this one which explains, in large part, the Captain's remarkable success in the sloop SPRAY. One other book, THE SEARCH FOR CAPTAIN SLOCUM, completes the triad, but that is a subject of another review.