<span style="line-height:1.75"><span>The newest title in the Stories of our Past series tells the tale of the Brier Island boy who went to sea at sixteen and never looked back. The first person to circumnavigate the globe alone, Captain Joshua Slocum has remained a nautical icon since the publication of </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Sailing Alone Around the World</span><span> in 1900.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>