The Last Grain Race
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Eric Newby. The Last Grain Race
THE LAST GRAIN RACE. ERIC NEWBY
Introduction to the 1981 Grafton Edition
1. Wurzel’s
2. Mountstewart
3. Fitting Out
4. Op the Rigging
5. Over the Side
6. Sömmarström and his Sails
7. Wild Life in the Irish Sea
8. The Watch Below
9 ‘Ängelskit’ and ‘Kabelgarn’
10 ‘Rundvask’
11. Kroner
12 ‘England’s Hope’
13. Inaccessible Island
14 ‘God Jul’
15. Into Battle
16. Cape Catastrophe
17. Port ‘Veek’
18. The Last Grain Race
19. Storm in the Southern Ocean
20. Cape Horn
21 ‘Like Spreeng after Vinter’
22. North of the Line
23. The Race is Won
Footnotes. Chapter 4: Op the Rigging
Chapter 5: Over the Side
Chapter 7: Wild Life in the Irish Sea
Chapter 12: ‘England’s Hope’
Chapter 14: ‘God Jul’
Chapter 19: Storm in the Southern Ocean
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About the Publisher
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A NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
All photographs in this book are drawn from a collection of several hundreds taken by the author in the course of the voyage, none of which had been previously published until the book’s first publication in 1956. The copyright is held by the author. The illustration on p.17 is reproduced by kind permission of the Editor, The Belfast News-Letter.
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‘You were a fool to take your shoes off,’ said the Mate when I reached the deck. ‘Now you can learn to clean the lavatories.’
Since that day I have been aloft in high rigging many hundreds of times and in every kind of weather but I still get that cold feeling in the pit of the stomach when I think of the first morning out on the royal yard with the sheds of the York Dock below.
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