A memorable tale of adventure on the turbulent seas of the Great
Southern and Atlantic oceans-on one of the most historic voyages of
our time-finds its way into paperback. This is William F. Stark's
engrossing memoir of the last leg of the Grain Race, and the
Pamir's rounding of fearsome Cape Horn-the storm-tossed tip of
South America just 600 miles from Antarctica-the veritable Mount
Everest of sailing. In 1949, the crew of thirty-four sailors from
around the world experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth
century on a four-masted vessel that carried hundreds of acres of
sail. In 128 days the Pamir journeyed 16,000 miles from Port
Victoria, Australia, to Falmouth, England, through the world's
stormiest seas, as Stark worked on decks awash with huge swells,
and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts
that were up to twenty stories high. Contrasting romance with the
realities of life at sea, and poignantly evoking the love affair he
left behind to join the Pamir, while punctuating his tale with
illuminating photos, maps, and details of maritime history, Stark
has written a thrilling book that climaxes the fabled era begun by
Cape Horn merchant sailors more than three centuries ago.
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