Joshua Slocum
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Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail
Sailing
Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...

 single-handedly around the world. He was a Canadian
Canada
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 born, naturalised American
United States
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 seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer
Writer
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. In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone Around the World
Sailing Alone Around the World
Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone...

. He disappeared
Missing person
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 in November 1909 while aboard his boat
Boat
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, the Spray
Spray (sailing vessel)
The S.V. Spray was a oyster sloop rebuilt by Joshua Slocum and used by him to sail single-handed around the world, the first voyage of its kind...

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Joshua Slocum (Joshua's spelling of his last name later in his life) was born on 20 February 1844 in Mount Hanley
Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia
Mount Hanley is a Canadian rural community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. It is the birthplace of the famous mariner Joshua Slocum.- Geography :Mount Hanley is located about nine kilometers northwest of the town of Middleton...

, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
Annapolis County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia located in the western part of the province on the Bay of Fundy. The county seat is Annapolis Royal.-History:...

 (officially recorded as Wilmot Station), a community on the North Mountain
North Mountain (Nova Scotia)
North Mountain is a narrow southwest-northeast trending volcanic mountain range on the mainland portion of southwestern Nova Scotia, stretching from Brier Island to Cape Split...

 within sight of the Bay of Fundy
Bay of Fundy
The Bay of Fundy is a bay on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine...

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