Sailing Alone Around the World
A sailor gives his account how he completed the first solo sailing voyage around the world.
License
Public Domain
Originally published
1900
Latest release
Jul 28, 2026
Pages
211
Format
6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm)
Book type
Novel
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Table of Contents
- Dedication
- I. A bluenose ancestry with Yankee proclivities
- II. Failure as a fisherman
- III. Goodbye to the American coast
- IV. Squally weather in the Azores
- V. Sailing from Gibraltar
- VI. Departure from Rio de Janeiro
- VII. Weighing anchor at Buenos Aires
- VIII. From Cape Pillar into the Pacific
- IX. Repairing the Spray’s sails
- Chapter X
- XI. The islanders at Juan Fernandez entertained with Yankee doughnuts
- XII. Seventy-two days without a port
- XIII. Samoa to Australia
- XIV. A testimonial from a lady
- XV. Arrival at Port Denison
- XVI. To the Keeling Cocos Islands
- XVII
- XVIII. Rounding the Cape of Good Hope
- XIX. In the isle of Napoleon’s exile
- XX
- XXI
- Lines and Sail-Plan of the Spray