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The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
Author(s): William F. Stark (Author), Peter Stark (Introduction)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication Date: 13 Oct. 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 0786712333
- ISBN-13: 9780786712335
Book Description
Ordinary Seaman, William F. Stark’s memorable tale of adventure recounts the last leg of the Grain Race, and the barque Pamir’s rounding of fearsome Cape Horn – the storm-tossed tip of South America and the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Her crew of thirty-four sailors experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century – in 1949 – on a four-masted vessel that carried hundreds of acres of sail. In 128 days the Pamir journeyed 16,000 miles from Australia to England on decks awash with huge swells, as Stark scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts twenty stories high. William Stark’s epitaph is a book that climaxes the storied era begun by Cape Horn merchant sailors more than three centuries ago.
