Captain Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Joshua Slocum was the first person known to sail around the world alone. Unlike lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis, he didn’t always enjoy that solitude – and unlike cyclist Annie Londonderry, he actually made the journey he became famous for.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class,
0:34.5	a production of I Heart Radio.
0:36.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.5	I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Frye.
0:47.3	I think some themes have developed in our podcast over the last few months,
0:52.1	including travel and solitude.
0:54.7	Because it's 2020, and we're still in the middle of this pandemic
0:57.9	that's keeping a lot of us home and away from most other people.
1:02.3	So today we're continuing on with that theme.
1:04.2	We have Joshua Slokum, who was the first person known to sail around the world alone.
1:10.7	So he has some things in common with some other folks we've talked about recently,
1:14.7	unlike Lighthousekeeper, Idoluis.
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