“I met Neptune in his wrath” – Joshua Slocum
“The acute pain of solitude experienced at first never returned” to Capt. Joshua Slocum, author of the quintessential travelogue, Sailing Alone Around the World. I met Neptune in his wrath, but he found that I had not treated him with contempt, and so he suffered me to go on and explore. Slocum left Boston on April 24, 1895, returning three years later. His book was an international bestseller. It is a delightful, incredible, fabulous and awesome story. Delightful because of its superb […]
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