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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

The Last Grain Race

 

The late Eric Newby is one of my favourite travel writers. In one of his most famous books, "The Last Grain Race", he describes signing on with the "Moshulu", one of the four-masted square-rigged barques in the last Grain Race.

 

 

I found a beautiful slip-cover edition of this book, published by the Folio Society, and, of course, couldn't resist to buy it, not only because I love this book but also because I already own a string of other Folio Society books. "The Fables of Aesop", Plato's "Symposium", St Augustine's "Confessions", Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy", and Robert Hughes' "The Fatal Shore" are some of them. Handsomely bound and with beautiful typeface, they take pride of place in my library.


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