Learning the ropes: An apprentice in the last of the windjammers

Eric Newby

ISBN 10: 0719556368 / ISBN 13: 9780719556364

Published by John Murray, 1999

About this Item

cloth, dust jacket, 144 pages , illustrated, a fine copy, In 1938, Eric Newby signed on as an apprentice on the four-masted barque "Moshulu" for a round-the-world voyage to carry grain to Europe from the Australian wheat belt. In this book, Newby looks back to his young self and his days on board "Moshulu.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning the ropes: An apprentice in the last of the windjammers
• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719556368
• ISBN 13: 9780719556364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Photography
  • Technology/Science

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Synopsis

From the perspective of 60 years on Eric Newby looks back with characteristic humour to his young self and his days on board 'Moshulu' and pays tribute, with his photographs, to these magnificent ships and their crews. No one with a love of the sea or a sense of the past could fail to be moved and excited by them.