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Lonely Planet: Journeys: The Last Grain Race (Paperback)

by Eric Newby (Author)
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications (Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0864427689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0864427687
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,492,818 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest non-fiction sea adventure ever?, 4 Sep 2002
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This review is from: The Last Grain Race (Picador Books) (Paperback)
Being an avid sailor myself, i approached this book with apprehension. However as soon i had finsihed the first chapter than was i drawn into eric's world. This book is as much a tribute to then endurance of man, as it is to the timeless square rigged tall ships and the crew that bravely man them. So engaging is the narrative that often you can taste the salt air and hear the sails fill with wind and feel the water about your ankles, and once again the crew lives. Finally a book you wish would never finish Hilarious, frightening and saddening in turns it's description of day to day life on the last great sailing ships is over all uplifting; i would recommend this book to both land lubbers and sailors alike.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a record of life 'aboard' at the end of commercial sailing, 13 Feb 2000
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This review is from: The Last Grain Race (Picador Books) (Paperback)
This book and 'Learning the ropes' mean so much to me. As you will notice I am no writer or scholar. I read 'A Travellers Life' when I picked up on the story of the 'Last Grain Race'. I am no reader either but I could not put the book down. In fact just before the end I started again beacuse I didnot want to finish it! The romance for land lubbers of ships under sail is enhanced by the hard reality of life aboard. Who could climb the main mast - higher than Nelsons Column?. The only hint of the 'other' romance by the way was conjured up by mentioning his mothers friend - a picture in my mind! Sincere thanks to you Eric Newby. Man has sailed and written of it for centuries but I have only read one like yours. It will always mean a lot to me and if I have children I will read it to them - until they know it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The last hurrah of the world's greatest sailing ships, 25 Feb 2001
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Eric Newby, still in his teens in the early part of 1939, signs on as crew on one of the last great clipper ships making the grain run from Europe to Australia and back. This book chronicles, in hilarious fashion, the adventurous and sometimes perilous journey, from his first climb of the 198 foot mainmast while docked in Belfast, through the Roaring Forties with the giant waves threatening to poop the ship, and so to Australia. Cooped up with a cabin full of Scandinavians united only by their dislike of Englishmen, Mr Newby survives and eventually thrives thanks in no small part, we must conclude, to his sense of humour. Through the standard English modesty about such things, it is easy to appreciate just how difficult Mr Newby had it and how well he rose to the occasion.
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