Sailing Alone Around the World — Talking Hologram Book
Hear the book talk first — this preview plays the book's own stage: Captain Joshua Slocum himself, in his portrait photograph of 1899, reading his voyage aloud in Alan's voice while the book's own pictures pass behind. The full book runs about 6.6 hours.
On the book's own stage, Joshua Slocum himself talks: he reads the whole of his Sailing Alone Around the World (The Century Company, 1900) — the first voyage ever made around the world by a man sailing alone, in the sloop Spray, thirty-six feet nine inches long, rebuilt with his own hands from the wreck of an oyster boat given to him at Fairhaven, Massachusetts, sailed from Boston on the twenty-fourth of April, 1895, and home to Newport on the twenty-seventh of June, 1898 — a cruise of over forty-six thousand miles, every mile of it single-handed — read aloud in Alan's voice, with Sousa's “Jack Tar” march of 1903 underneath, while the book's own pictures pass behind: the Spray under sail from the photograph that fronts his book, his own chart of her course, the storm off New York, the battleship Oregon passing him by, the captain reading in his cabin. Joshua Slocum was born in 1844 and lost at sea in 1909 — his hundred years have long run, and his own words are read exactly as he published them: nothing added, nothing cut, nothing rewritten.
franklinlangston.gumroad.com/l/xkjqvy — $39
PLEASE NOTE — this is a DIGITAL talking book (an e-book that talks): after checkout, Gumroad delivers one file that opens and plays in the browser on your phone, tablet, or computer — you will see the narrator and hear the book read aloud. No physical book is shipped.
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