# Tom Howard — Sailing Alone Around the World character guide

> Tom Howard in Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Howard

**First appearance:** 0007-vi

## Who they are

A person met by the narrator in port.

## In the story

### [Chapter XIII: Australia and Tasmania](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sailing_alone_around_the_world_se/chapters/xiii)

An Irishman hired by Slocum to lecture about the shark on exhibition in Melbourne. He becomes over-enthusiastic and is eventually let go.

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