Editing Joshua Slocum (section)

===''Sailing Alone Around the World''===
[[Image:Sailing-Alone-Around-the-World-cover.jpg|thumb|left|Original cover 1900.]]
[[File:Spray1901ErieCanal.jpg|thumb|right|Spray being hauled up the Erie Canal to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo 1901.]]

In 1899, he published his account of the voyage in ''[[Sailing Alone Around the World]]'', first serialized in ''The Century Magazine'' and then in several book-length editions. Reviewers received the slightly anachronistic [[Age of Sail|age-of-sail]] adventure story enthusiastically. [[Arthur Ransome]] went so far as to declare: "Boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once."<ref>[http://www.mywire.com/a/Oxford-Companion-World-Exploration/Slocum-Joshua/9516558 Arthur Ransome on ''Sailing Alone Around the World'']</ref> In his review, Sir [[Edwin Arnold]] wrote, "I do not hesitate to call it the most extraordinary book ever published."

Slocum's book deal was an integral part of his journey. His publisher had provided Slocum with an extensive on-board library, and Slocum wrote several letters to his editor from distant points around the globe. His ''Sailing Alone'' won him widespread fame in the English-speaking world, and he was one of eight invited speakers at a dinner in honor of [[Mark Twain]] in December 1900. Slocum hauled the ''Spray'' up the Erie Canal to Buffalo, New York, for the [[Pan-American Exposition]] in the summer of 1901, and he was well compensated for participating in the fair.