{"product_id":"sailing-alone-around-the-world-3","title":"Sailing Alone Around the World","description":"Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km). In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, “boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Joshua Slocum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback 294 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSKU: P7290P","brand":"Boat books Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52956125987180,"sku":"P7290P","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/1920\/5996\/files\/Sailing-Alone-around-the-world.jpg?v=1764760203","url":"https:\/\/www.boatbooks-aust.com.au\/products\/sailing-alone-around-the-world-3","provider":"Boat books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}