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Learning the ropes : an apprentice in the last of the windjammers / Eric Newby.

By: Newby, Eric.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : John Murray, 1999Description: 143 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0719556368.Subject(s): Newby, Eric | Moshulu (Ship) | Voyages and travels -- Pictorial works | Seafaring life -- Pictorial works | Windjammers (Sailing ships)DDC classification: 387.22
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item 387.22 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00054340
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An account of the author's apprenticeship on a sailing ship carrying grain from Australia to Europe between 1938 and 1939. It is illustrated with 160 photographs taken at the time by Newby, who is the author of SLOWLY DOWN THE GANGES and THE LAST GRAIN RACE.

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