Sailing Alone Around the World is cartoonist Jon Buller’s adaptation of Joshua Slocum’s eponymous memoir.
In April of 1895, Captain Slocum took off from Boston aboard a 36 foot wooden sloop that he renovated himself and proceeded to sail around the world, a three-year voyage of more than 46,000 miles, becoming the first person to single-handedly circle the globe. Upon his return, he wrote a memoir of his voyage recounting his adventures‚ hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar, raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs‚ which is brought to vivid graphic life by cartoonist Jon Buller.