The Last Grain Race

The Last Grain Race

The Last Grain Race is a 1956 book by Eric Newby, a travel writer, about his time spent on the four-masted steel barque Moshulu during the vessel's last voyage in the Australian grain trade. In 1938 the 18 year old Newby shipped aboard the four-masted barque Moshulu as an apprentice. His outbound passage from Europe to Australia was via the Cape of Good Hope. His return was around Cape Horn. Moshulu was at the time the largest sailing ship still transporting grain. Newby finds out that his advertising agency, The Wurzel Agency, has lost a lucrative cereal account and he decides to write to...
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Author:Eric Newby
Genre:Travel, Fiction, Sailing
Year published:1956
Number of editions:13

Author of The Last Grain Race

Eric Newby
Eric Newby
December 6, 1919 - October 20, 2006
Birthplace:London

George Eric Newby CBE MC was an English travel author. Newby's best known works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain Race, and Round Ireland in Low Gear. Newby was born and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London, and was educated at St Paul's School. After leaving school he...
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Additional works by Eric Newby
BookGenre
A Small Place in Italy Autobiographical novel
Love and War in the Apennines Autobiographical novel
Around the World in 80 Years
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Fiction
In the Shores of the Mediterranean
Round Ireland in Low Gear Travel
Learning the ropes
William Hoare of Bath Biography
Departures & arrivals Travel
Book of Travellers Tales
A Merry Dance Around the World
A book of lands and peoples
A Traveller's Life
On the Shores of the Mediterranean Travel
Something Wholesale Autobiography
The Big Red Train Ride Travel
What the Traveller Saw Travel
Slowly Down the Ganges Non-fiction
Wonders of Britain
World atlas of exploration
Ein Spaziergang im Hindukusch. Die Andere Bibliothek
Mitchell Beazley world atlas of exploration
Great ascents
When the snow comes, they will take you away
ast grain race
La dernière course du blé
Avalon
My favourite stories of travel
Travel Anthology
Windjammer
Business English Certificate 2. Intermediate. Practice Book
Rand McNally world atlas of exploration
Una Vuelta Por El Hindu Kush
Grain race: pictures of life before the mast in a windjammer
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Literary Genres

Travel
Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. The term "travel" originates from the Old French word...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Sailing
Sailing

Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes...
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