(W/A/CA) Jon Buller Sailing Alone Around the World is cartoonist Jon Buller?s adaptation of Joshua Slocum?s eponymous memoir. In April of 1895, Captain Slocum took off from Boston aboard a 36 foot wooden sloop that he renovated himself and proceeded to sail around the world ? a three-year voyage of more than 46,000 miles!?becoming the first person to single-handedly circle the globe. Upon his return, he wrote a memoir of his voyage recounting his adventures?hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar, raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs? which is brought to vivid graphic life by cartoonist Jon Buller.