The Last Grain Race.
The Last Grain Race.
NEWBY, Eric.
Item Number: 2389
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.
First American edition of the adventurer’s first book. Octavo, original boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Signed “Best wishes Eric Newby” on the title page.
In 1938, an eighteen year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque Moshulu ended up as a dockside restaurant in Philadelphia; the young apprentice went on to become one of the greatest travel writers of this century. The Last Grain Race is Eric Newby's spellbinding account of this time spent on the Moshulu's last voyage in the Australian grain trade.
We're sorry, this item has sold.
