Isolation

  1. Sailing Alone Around the World
    Joshua Slocum 1900

    This personal account follows the first solo voyage around the world, made in the small sailing boat Spray. Slocum describes scattering carpet tacks on deck to keep barefoot intruders away.

    4h 59m reading time

  2. South
    Ernest Shackleton 1919

    This firsthand account follows an Antarctic expedition whose ship, Endurance, was crushed by ice. It recounts Shackleton's journey across stormy seas in a small boat to seek rescue for his stranded crew.

    10h 30m reading time