The Last Grain Race - Hardcover

Newby, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043630600X ISBN 13: 9780436306006

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1979

Synopsis

Re-issued Edition. Good+ condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean content with very light spotting to page ends. Owner writing to ffep.

About this title

Review:

‘Enthralling – I know of no other book about square-riggers that gives such a lively account of the daily round of men in the fo’c’sle’ Sunday Times

‘Indescribably pungent ... impossible to read without laughing’ Observer

‘Mr Newby proves himself to be a first-rate writer ... Years have dulled nothing of the spirit of his first voyage; he gives exactly the feel of working a tall ship in hard conditions; he did not just see these things; he felt and can convey them; the crew of “Moshulu” live, move and are real human beings – and go on living when the book is closed’ Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

ERIC NEWBY was born in London in 1919 and was educated at St Paul’s School. In 1938, he joined the four-masted Finnish barque ‘Moshulu’ as an apprentice and sailed in the last Grain Race from Ireland by way of Australia and Cape Horn. During World War II, he served in the Black Watch and the Special Boat Section. In 1942, he was captured and remained a prisoner-of-war until 1945. He subsequently married the girl who helped him escape, and for the next fifty years, his wife Wanda was at his side on many adventures. After the war, his world expanded still further – into the fashion business and book publishing. Whatever else he was doing, Newby always travelled on a grand scale, either under his own steam or as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made a CBE in 1994 and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers in 2001. Eric Newby died in 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 043630600X
• ISBN 13: 9780436306006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256