He is a captivating writer as well observant, humorous, and evocative: "For, one day, well off the Patagonian coast, while the sloop was reaching under short sail, a tremendous wave, the culmination, it seemed, of many waves, rolled down upon her in a storm, roaring as it came. At loose ends at fifty-one, he was offered an old oyster boat which he rebuilt into the 37' Spray and in 1895 he took off from Boston for the Straits of Gibraltar. Marooned in Brazil, he built a "canoe" in which he returned to America (see The Voyage of the Liberdade). The epitome of Yankee independence, he had risen from a seaman to the captain of his own ship.
Joshua Slocum, one of the most famous of American sea captains, really was the first to single-handedly circumnavigate the world.
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