The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir Chuck J. Rylant her life and her fourteen-year-old

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The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir Chuck J. Rylant her life and her fourteen-year-oldIn 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn