Posts tagged with ‘circumnavigation’

  • This Day in History June 27, 1898

    By Ruth on June 27, 2013
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    I was not aware of today’s feature–maybe you were.  On this date in 1898, Joshua Slocum became the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone.  He was a native of Nova Scotia, and he began his journey on April 24, 1895, from Boston,  It was a 46,000, three-year journey.  He was 54 when he began this journey–wow!    He published a […]