The Last Grain Race.
First Edition of Eric Newby's The Last Grain Race; Signed by Him
The Last Grain Race.
NEWBY, Eric.
Item Number: 2581
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956.
First edition of the noted travel writer’s first book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Eric Newby on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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.
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