Again, I offer a half-hearted disclaimer. The following is not an entirely fictional or non-fictional account. Jeb (my alter ego) and Joshua Slocum met in a kind of dream, one summer morning, in 2011. The Josh specter (ghost) was not the biblical Joshua— a spy in ancient Canaan and Moses’ guy to go to during the Great Exodus. But there was that biblical thread again, always jingling Jeb’s nerves when his guard wasn’t up. No, in this dream of Jeb’s there arose the ghost of