London, 1993. 205 pp, many b/w photos. New paperback.
Newby has led the life most travel writers dream about. At 19 he joined the crew of the Finnish barque Moshulu and sailed in the last Grain Race from Australia around Cape Horn to Europe.
This book represents a photographic memoir that spans much of this century and, in many cases, captures 'a world that has changed beyond all recognition.' There are hints of regret at the engines of progress that have consigned four-masted schooners and Portuguese windmills to antiquity and modernized miles of shoreline with holiday time-shares. New Paperback.
