The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir,Used

The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir,Used

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In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his studyabroad 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 Starks 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 Hornthe veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamirs journey through the worlds stormiest seas as he worked brutal fourhour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up icecoated 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.

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