Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocumwas the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth20 February 1844
CountryCanada
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It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
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No king, no country, no treasury at all, was taxed for the voyage of the Spray, and she accomplished all that she undertook to do.
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Green burial isn't about doing extra things. It's about what not to do.
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Some funeral homes try to guilt families into buying more expensive urns by stamping 'temporary container' on the outside of the cardboard or plastic box that the remains are returned in.
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.
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On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves
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Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
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When their ship arrived at Sydney they gave the captain a purse of gold for his skill and seamanship in bringing them safe into port.