Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers

Newby, Eric

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ISBN 10: 0719556368 ISBN 13: 9780719556364

Published by John Murray, United Kingdom, 1999

Language: English

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Title: Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers
Publisher: John Murray, United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0719556368
ISBN 13: 9780719556364
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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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.

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