Amos, do I have a present for you:

"Sailing Alone Around the World was Slocum's third book, the first being The Voyage of the Destroyer about the delivery of a warship to the Latin American country that had bought it, and the second The Voyage of the Liberdade which tells the story of how, with his wife and family, he was shipwrecked on the coast of Brazil, and then set about building a boat that carried them back to the U.S.A. "

http://www.arthur-ransome.org/ar/literary/sloc2_0.htm