Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers - Hardcover

Newby, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812932528 ISBN 13: 9780812932522

Publisher: Times Books, 1999

Synopsis

Over 150 photographs taken by the author depict the daily life aboard the Moshulu, one of the last commercial sailing vessels

About this title

About the Author

Eric Newby is the author of fifteen other adventure classics, including <i>The Last Grain Race</i>, <i>A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush</i>, <i>Love and War in the Apennines</i>, and <i>What the Traveler Saw</i>. He lives in London.

From the Inside Flap

c Newby signed on as an apprentice on the Finnish four-masted barque <i>Moshulu</i> for a 'round-the-world' voyage transiting between Europe and Australia. It was the toughest imaginable introduction to the sailor's life. Few of the crew spoke English, and he was ordered atop the rigging -- 200 feet above deck -- before he could get out of his best jacket and shoes. More extraordinary still, between his shifts he managed to photograph day-to-day life aboard the antique vessel, and on others like her in various ports of call. Though he did not realize it then, these pictures soon became historic, for with a world war brewing, there would never again be a cavalcade of square riggers such as made the circuit that year. Remarkably, the <i>Moshulu</i> is still afloat and is now a restaurant ship, moored in Philadelphia.  

Edition details

• Publisher: Times Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812932528
• ISBN 13: 9780812932522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144