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The Last Grain Race (Lonely Planet Journeys (Travel Literature)) (Paperback)
$12.86 - Save $2.13 (14%) - RRP $14.99 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Last Grain RaceThe Last Grain Race is Eric Newby's spell-binding account of this time spent on the Moshulu's last voyage in the Australian grain trade. A classic tale from one of the world's best-loved travel writers.
Full description- Publisher: Lonely Planet
- Published: 01 July 2008
- Format: Paperback 285 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9781741795264 ISBN 10: 1741795265
- Sales rank: 58,890
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Full description for The Last Grain Race
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.
