The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:William F. Stark, Peter Stark (Introduction by)Publish date:2004-11-26Pages:231
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780786714612ISBN-10:786714611UPC:9780786714612Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Transportation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Water Sports, Ships & Shipbuilding, WorldBook Topic:Sailing, HistorySize:8.14 x 5.06 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCXTA29F8D
The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780786714612ISBN-10:786714611UPC:9780786714612Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Transportation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Water Sports, Ships & Shipbuilding, WorldBook Topic:Sailing, HistorySize:8.14 x 5.06 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCXTA29F8D
William F. Stark was a Dartmouth student studying in Switzerland when he left for the windjammer Pamir in Australia. En route to meet the ship, he had a passionate love affair with Yvette, a beautiful young Frenchwoman, whom he was forced to bid adieu. Stark committed suicide in 2003, just weeks after arrangements for his book's publication were made. His son, Peter Stark, contributes to Outside...
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