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The Last Grain Race (Picador Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 5947
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 251
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0330318853
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780330318853
ASIN: 0330318853
Publication Date: December 1, 1995
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An addictively good read - even for non sailors March 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Eric Newby is a renowned travel writer, and this is one of his first and best books. It tells of how in 1938 he signed on as an apprentice deck hand on a large steel square rigger engaged in the Australia - Europe grain trade. It is a fascinating, moving, exciting, funny account of the round trip with all its highs and lows, written with such skill, and passion I just couldn't put it down. You really don't have to be a sailor to enjoy this book,nut if you are it's even better. A collector's item.
rave over sail July 22, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
His prose prompted me to by a small sailing cruiser when i retired. I will probably never make one of those epic voyages, but sailing on the Firth of Forth as I now do, I can dream
Greatest non-fiction sea adventure ever? September 4, 2002
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Being an avid sailor myself, i approached this book with apprehension. However as soon i had finsihed the first chapter than was i drawn into eric's world. This book is as much a tribute to then endurance of man, as it is to the timeless square rigged tall ships and the crew that bravely man them. So engaging is the narrative that often you can taste the salt air and hear the sails fill with wind and feel the water about your ankles, and once again the crew lives. Finally a book you wish would never finish Hilarious, frightening and saddening in turns it's description of day to day life on the last great sailing ships is over all uplifting; i would recommend this book to both land lubbers and sailors alike.
Excellent, easy reading and informative. October 7, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was the first Eric Newby book I have read and caused me to read many more. A very good tale of adventure.
The last hurrah of the world's greatest sailing ships February 26, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Eric Newby, still in his teens in the early part of 1939, signs on as crew on one of the last great clipper ships making the grain run from Europe to Australia and back. This book chronicles, in hilarious fashion, the adventurous and sometimes perilous journey, from his first climb of the 198 foot mainmast while docked in Belfast, through the Roaring Forties with the giant waves threatening to poop the ship, and so to Australia. Cooped up with a cabin full of Scandinavians united only by their dislike of Englishmen, Mr Newby survives and eventually thrives thanks in no small part, we must conclude, to his sense of humour. Through the standard English modesty about such things, it is easy to appreciate just how difficult Mr Newby had it and how well he rose to the occasion.
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