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作       者:Eric Newby

出  版  社:William Collins

出版时间:2014-11-06

字       数:43.5万

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An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby – later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent – set sail aboard Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still employed in the transportation of grain from Australia to Europe. Every year from 1921 to 1939, the vessels involved in the grain trade would strive to find the shortest, fastest passage home – ‘the grain race’ – in the face of turbulent seas, atrocious weather conditions and hard graft. First published in 1956, ‘The Last Grain Race’, featuring many photographs from the author’s personal collection, celebrates both the spirit of adventure and the thrill of sailing on the high seas. Newby’s first-hand account – engaging and informative, with frequent bursts of humour and witty observations from both above and below deck – chronicles this classic sailing voyage of the Twenties and Thirties, and records the last grain race of maritime history.
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Title Page

Copyright

A Note on the Illustrations

Extracts From Lloyd’s Index and List

Sail Plan and Diagram of Running Rigging

Map of Moshulu’s Course Round the World

Contents

Introduction to the 1981 Grafton Edition

Chapter 1: Wurzel’s

Chapter 2: Mountstewart

Chapter 3: Fitting Out

Chapter 4: Op the Rigging

Chapter 5: Over the Side

Chapter 6: Sömmarström and His Sails

Chapter 7: Wild Life in the Irish Sea

Chapter 8: The Watch Below

Chapter 9: ‘Ängelskit’ and ‘Kabelgarn’

Chapter 10: ‘Rundvask’

Chapter 11: Kroner

Chapter 12: ‘England’s Hope’

Chapter 13: Inaccessible Island

Chapter 14: ‘God Jul’

Chapter 15: Into Battle

Chapter 16: Cape Catastrophe

Chapter 17: Port ‘Veek’

Chapter 18: The Last Grain Race

Chapter 19: Storm in the Southern Ocean

Chapter 20: Cape Horn

Chapter 21: ‘Like Spreeng After Vinter’

Chapter 22: North of the Line

Chapter 23: The Race Is Won

The Beaufort Scale

The Grain Race 1939

Moshulu – Belfast to Port Lincoln

Moshulu – Port Victoria to Queenstown

Later History of Moshulu

Footnotes

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Also by Eric Newby

About the Publisher

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