Learning the ropes: An apprentice in the last of the windjammers
$40.00 USD • Used
cloth, dust jacket, 144 pages , illustrated, a fine copy, In 1938, Eric Newby signed on as an apprentice on the four-masted barque "Moshulu" for a round-the-world voyage to carry grain to Europe f...
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cloth, dust jacket, 144 pages , illustrated, a fine copy, In 1938, Eric Newby signed on as an apprentice on the four-masted barque "Moshulu" for a round-the-world voyage to carry grain to Europe from the Australian wheat belt. In this book, Newby looks back to his young self and his days on board "Moshulu."
From Publisher:
An account of the author's apprenticeship on a sailing ship carrying grain from Australia to Europe between 1938 and 1939. It is illustrated with 160 photographs taken at the time by Newby, who is the author of SLOWLY DOWN THE GANGES and THE LAST GRAIN RACE.Product Info
ISBN: 0719556368
ISBN-13: 9780719556364
Publisher: John Murray
Year: 1999
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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