{"product_id":"the-last-time-around-cape-horn-the-historic-1949-voyage-of-the-windjammer-pamir-0786714611","title":"The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0786714611\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stark, William F.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 -- 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51308484165920,"sku":"NEW0786714611","price":19.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61R8I2rXDXL.jpg?v=1772821209","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-last-time-around-cape-horn-the-historic-1949-voyage-of-the-windjammer-pamir-0786714611","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}