Name: the last time around cape horn,the historic 1949 voyage of the windjammer pamir (en Inglés)
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Author: Stark, William F. ; Stark, Peter
ISBN: 9780786714612

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Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

William F. Stark

Introducción de

Peter Stark

Editorial

Basic Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

231

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.7 x 12.9 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN

0786714611

ISBN13

9780786714612

Categorías

Historia general y del mundo
Navegación en barcos de vela
Barcos y embarcaciones

the last time around cape horn,the historic 1949 voyage of the windjammer pamir (en Inglés)

William F. Stark (Autor) · Peter Stark (Introducción de) · Basic Books · Tapa Blanda

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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.