- Seafaring life, Moshulu (Four-masted barque), Moshulu (Ship)
An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last 'grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1938, 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.
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Classical in form, nostalgic, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Eric Newby
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Lonely Planet Publications, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780864427687
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George Eric Newby CBE MC (6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006[1]) was an English travel author. Newby's best known works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain Race, and Round Ireland in Low Gear. The ground was like iron with sharp rocks sticking up out of it. We started to blow up our air-beds. ' God, you must be a couple of pansies,' said Thesiger.
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