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    Una McGovern and Paul Jenner
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The Last Grain Race (Travel Literature)

by Eric Newby

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Publisher Comments:

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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Product Details

ISBN:
9781741795264
Author:
Newby, Eric
Publisher:
Lonely Planet
Subject:
Essays & Travelogues
Subject:
Seafaring life
Subject:
Moshulu (Ship)
Edition Description:
Travel Literature
Series:
Lonely Planet Journeys
Publication Date:
July 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
285
Dimensions:
197 x 128 mm
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