Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova...
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World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail...
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19th-century Canadian-American seaman and author Joshua Slocum during the first solo circumnavigation of the Earth. Slocum departed Boston Harbor in the 36-foot-9-inch...
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painter, particularly of portraits Joshua W. Sill (1831–1862), American (Union) Civil War brigadier general Joshua Slocum (1844–1909), Canadian-American seaman...
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Slocum may refer to: Bill Slocum, American politician Craig Slocum, American actor Frances Slocum, adopted member of the Miami tribe Frederick Slocum...
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noteworthy achievement. Sailor Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the world in 1895–1898, and the Joshua Slocum Society International presented...
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Mount Hanley Schoolhouse Museum (section Joshua Slocum)
surrounding communities as well as rural school life and the famous mariner Joshua Slocum who attended the school in the 1850s. The school was built in 1850....
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single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. She sailed from the Canary Islands on 28 March 1976, and returned there...
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Bernard Moitessier (section Wreck of the 'Joshua')
book, he commissioned a 39-foot steel ketch which he named Joshua, in honour of Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail around the world solo. Finally he...
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author of six novels; biographies of Harry Crosby, John O'Hara, and Joshua Slocum; a volume of essays, and other works of non-fiction in several genres...
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