{"product_id":"the-last-time-around-cape-william-f-stark-9780786714612","title":"The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir","description":"In 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 \u003ci\u003eGreat Age of Sail\u003c\/i\u003e, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William F. Stark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786714611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786714612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 5.06w x 0.77d","brand":"William F. Stark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045188137215,"sku":"9780786714612","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a09154ec-4fd2-479a-b08f-bdbdcd060ca5.jpg?v=1684977259","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-time-around-cape-william-f-stark-9780786714612","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}