The Last Grain Race [Paperback, 9781741795264] Eric Newby

Description: *** Brand New *** Unread Copy - Unused - Tight Binding ** Images are of the actual item In 1938, and eighteen year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque Moshulu ended up as a dockside restaurant in Philadelphia; the young apprentice went on to become one of the greatest travel writers of this century. The Last Grain Race is Eric Newby's spellbinding account of this time spent on the Moshulu's last voyage in the Australian grain trade. As always, Eric Newby's sharp eye for detail captures the hardships, danger, squabbles, companionship and sheer joy of shipboard life - bedbugs, ferocious storms, eccentric Finnish crew and all. By pure chance, Eric witnesses the passing of the era of a sail, and his take is all the more significant for being the last of its kind.

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ean: 9781741795264

ISBN: 9781741795264

number_of_pages: 288

binding: Paperback

publication_date: 2008-07-01

brand: Brand: Lonely Planet

manufacturer: Lonely Planet

Book Title: Lonely Planet the Last Grain Race

Item Length: 7.8 in

Item Width: 5 in

Edition: 2

Author: Eric Newby

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Features: Revised

Topic: Essays & Travelogues, Ships & Shipbuilding / General

Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications

Book Series: Travel Literature Ser.

Publication Year: 2008

Genre: Travel, Transportation

Number of Pages: 288 Pages