There, his father opened a dockside cobbler's shop, specializing in fisherman's boots.
When Slocum was eight, the family moved to Westport, Brier Island, which is located off the tip of Nova Scotia at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy. His father, John Slocombe, was a farmer and his mother, Sarah Slocombe, was a lighthouse keeper's daughter. The fifth of 11 children, Joshua Slocum was born February 20, 1844, in Nova Scotia, Canada. It was the first recorded, solo circumnavigation of the earth-an amazing feat at the time, considering Slocum sailed on a crude, self-built ship with nothing but a tin clock to track time and a compass, a sextant and some old charts to guide his way. In 1898, Canadian-American mariner Joshua Slocum (1844-1909) completed a three-year, 46,000-mile journey around the globe during which time he endured storms, pirates and clashes with some of the native islanders he encountered along the way.
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