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Author : Eric Newby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Grain Race written by Eric Newby and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330700498
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Last Grain Race written by Eric Newby and published by . This book was released on 1996-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780586051177
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Grain Race written by Eric Newby and published by Academy Chicago Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seafaring tale of the first order, The Last Grain Race captures the drama and excitement of the last great commercial fleet under canvas. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Grain Race. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956 written by Eric Newby and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.J. Villiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Falmouth for Orders: the Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race Around Cape Horn written by A.J. Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Stark
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0786740051
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Time Around Cape Horn written by William F. Stark and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.
Author : Fitzroy MaClean
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241973252
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eastern Approaches written by Fitzroy MaClean and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould . . .
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007508158
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Small Place in Italy written by Eric Newby and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007404190
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Around the World in 80 Years written by Eric Newby and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain’s best-loved travel writers.
Author : Vince Beiser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399576444
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World in a Grain written by Vince Beiser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives--and our future. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it--and sometimes, even kill for it. It's also a provocative examination of the serious human and environmental costs incurred by our dependence on sand, which has received little public attention. Not all sand is created equal: Some of the easiest sand to get to is the least useful. Award-winning journalist Vince Beiser delves deep into this world, taking readers on a journey across the globe, from the United States to remote corners of India, China, and Dubai to explain why sand is so crucial to modern life. Along the way, readers encounter world-changing innovators, island-building entrepreneurs, desert fighters, and murderous sand pirates. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening work, one that is both unexpected and involving, rippling with fascinating detail and filled with surprising characters.
