GRAIN RACE. [First Edn.]

by Villiers, Alan

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NY:: Scribner,, 1933. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. With b&w photos. Day-by-day account of Villiers' 4-masted sailing ship `Parma,' as she carried 5,000 tons of wheat from Australia via Cape Horn to England in 1932, making landfall at Falmouth in 103 days. ||| Delightful narrative of sailing before the mast in the closing days of commercial sailing under canvas.