A portrait of the legendary sea commander traces his rapid rise from an uneducated childhood in mid-nineteenth-century Nova Scotia to the leader of ships that experienced high-danger adventures, including the first documented solo journey around the world.
Content Note
Sailing into the world. The tales he could have told ; Unafraid of a capful of wind ; Coming aboard through the hawse-hole ; Master Slocum ; Love stories ; Enterprises ; Northern light ; Mutiny ; Stranding -- Sailing around it. Salvage ; Destroyer and Poverty Point ; The great adventure ; What came after.