“This audio presentation sparkles with the author’s wit and the reader’s calm, light English accent…Mayes’ voice is perfect for a man in his sixties, spinning the adventures of his sailing around the world. “The finest single-handed adventure story yet written.” Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. It flows free and easy and is filled with amusing anecdotes…Any sailor who loves the sea will be brought up short from time to time by the quiet eloquence of Slocum's writing.” Sailing Alone Around The World - Ebook written by Joshua Slocum. “ Sailing Alone around the World could have been written yesterday. “Surely one of the all-time classic sailing narratives, this is more than just an account of a fascinating and often arduous journey, it has also given rise to a mythology all its own.” “No better voice than that of Bernard Mayes could have been picked for this voyage filled with adventures ranging from the total loneliness of the solo voyage to the tense fear of attack by Tierra del Fuego pirates…Bernard makes as exciting as they must have been to Slocum his voice is the voice of a sailing gentleman.” “A classic book…Slocum’s writing is as elegant as his thirty-seven-foot sloop, Spray, whose crossing of the Atlantic he describes vividly.” “One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure.” “ literate and absorbing yarn…A convincing tale of the intelligence, skill, and fortitude that drove a master navigator.” Captain Joshua Slocum was a seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world.
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