ailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum is a work of non-fiction. It is comprised of 294 pages broken down into twenty-one chapters. The shortest chapter is comprised of seven pages; the longest chapter is comprised of nineteen pages; the average number of pages per chapter is thirteen. In addition to the twenty-one chapters, there is also an appendix and a section featuring the details of the book's sixty-five illustrations, which are interspersed throughout.