{"product_id":"the-last-time-around-cape-horn","title":"The Last Time Around Cape Horn","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.\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44788869759155,"sku":"9780786714612","price":1039.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478019839780786714612.jpg?v=1762835420","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-last-time-around-cape-horn","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}