As a part of my ongoing interest in reading about death customs in modern and historical societies, I spent some time on Goodreads, recently, adding books to my to-read list. One of these books was Joshua Slocum’s Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death (2011). However, when adding it, I saw this little blurb about the author in the sidebar: Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian born, naturalised American seaman and advent...
