* Selkirk is mentioned in Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum.

Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898.

* 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

The fame Nova Scotia achieved from sailors was assured when Joshua Slocum became the first man to sail single-handedly around the world ( 1895 ).

Since the solo circumnavigation of Joshua Slocum in the 1890s, long-distance cruising under sail has inspired thousands of otherwise normal people to explore distant seas and horizons.

* July 3 – Joshua Slocum completes a 3-year solo circumnavigation of the world.

** Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer ( d. 1909 )

* Spray ( sailing_vessel ), a sloop rebuilt and used by Joshua Slocum to sail single-handed around the world, the first voyage of its kind.

* Joshua Slocum, 1895 – 1898, first single-handed circumnavigation.

* Captain Joshua Slocum ( 1844 – 1909 ), the first man to sail alone around the world, and his ship, the Spray.

Joshua Slocum used the Lunar Distance method during the first ever recorded single-handed circumnavigation of the world.

Joshua Slocum ( February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909 ) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world.

Joshua Slocum was born on 20 February 1844 in Mount Hanley, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia ( officially recorded as Wilmot Station ), a community on the North Mountain within sight of the Bay of Fundy.

Joshua Slocum was born in the family's farm house in Mount Hanley and learned to read and write at the nearby Mount Hanley School.

Although Joshua Slocum called this ship " my best command ", it was a command plagued with mutinies and mechanical problems.

Brady photographed and made portraits of many senior Union officers in the war, including Ulysses S. Grant, Nathaniel Banks, Don Carlos Buell, Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Butler, Joshua Chamberlain, George Custer, David Farragut, John Gibbon, Winfield Hancock, Samuel P. Heintzelman, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Howard, David Hunter, John A. Logan, Irvin McDowell, George McClellan, James McPherson, George Meade, Montgomery C. Meigs, David Dixon Porter, William Rosecrans, John Schofield, William Sherman, Daniel Sickles, Henry Warner Slocum, George Stoneman, Edwin V. Sumner, George Thomas, Emory Upton, James Wadsworth, and Lew Wallace.

The voyage was also a race against the clock as Sir Francis wanted to better the typical times achieved by the fastest fully crewed clipper ships during the heyday of commercial sail in the 19th century ( the first recorded solo circumnavigation of the globe was achieved by Joshua Slocum in 1898 but it took him three years with numerous stops-Slocum also took up the harder challenge of sailing east to west, against the prevailing wind ).

Harry Clifford Pidgeon ( August 31, 1869 – November 4, 1954 ), was an American sailor, a noted photographer, and was the second person to sail single-handedly around the world ( 1921-1925 ), 23 years after Joshua Slocum.

* Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail solo around the world

Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail solo around the world, grew up in Westport, where his mother was born.

Brier Island was the childhood home of world famous sailor Joshua Slocum who became the first person to circumnavigate the world alone.

* Joshua Slocum ( 1844 – 1909 )

Some of the incidents surrounding this event are recounted in Val Wake's memoir My Voyage around Spray with Apologies to Captain Joshua Slocum.

* Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, ISBN 1-877008-57-5

* A. Graves and W. V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1899 – 1901, 4 volumes ).

* Joshua S. Salmon ( 1846 – 1902 ), represented the 4th congressional district from March 4, 1899 – May 6, 1902.

Later, the electric flash-lamp used an electrical circuit to trigger a fuse to ignite explosive powder ( e. g., magnesium ) The flash-lamp was invented by Joshua Cohen ( a. k. a. Joshua Lionel Cowen of the Lionel toy train fame ) in 1899.

Mary Phagan ( June 1, 1899 – April 26, 1913 ) was born in Florence, Alabama four months after her father William Joshua Phagan died of measles.

In his book The Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel describes the unique aspect of the Jewish prophets as compared to other similar figures.

The Book of Joshua () is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament.

Joshua forms part of the biblical history of the emergence of Israel which begins with the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, continues with their conquest of Canaan under their leader Joshua ( the subject matter of the book of Joshua ), and culminates in Judges with the settlement of the tribes in the land.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

Almost all scholars agree that the book of Joshua holds little historical value for early Israel and most likely reflects a much later period.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

The Babylonian Talmud was the first attempt to attach authors to the holy books: each book, according to the authors of the Talmud, was written by a prophet, and each prophet was an eyewitness of the events described, and Joshua himself wrote " the book that bears his name ".

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

According to Ann E. Killebrew, " Most scholars today accept that the majority of the conquest narratives in the book of Joshua are devoid of historical reality ".

Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

These were extensively used by amateur artists while on their travels, but they were also employed by professionals, including Paul Sandby, Canaletto and Joshua Reynolds, whose camera ( disguised as a book ) is now in the Science Museum ( London ).

* National Public Radio interviewed Joshua Olsen about his book.

Joshua D. Angrist and Joern-Steffen Pischke named their applied econometrics toolkit book " Mostly Harmless Econometrics " in the spirit of Douglas Adams ' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Mostly Harmless.

It is mentioned the Bible book of Joshua ( and ) as being " on the south side of the stream " ( Wadi Kelt ), looking toward Gilgal.