ABSTRACT
Despite its unprofitable, uncomfortable, and boring aspects, sailing still offers the sailor a mini-adventure that is rare in this age of sloth. An outstanding narrative of the rich rewards of sailing is Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World (1899). Writer Arthur Ransome’s critique of this extraordinary work, “Boys who do not like this book
ought to be drowned at once,” is inappropriate only because girls are not treated equally.
