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Originally Posted by bfisher
Eric Newby's work is also like that (ex. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush). Newby wrote a wonderful short book about his experience as an apprentice seaman on a windjammer carrying wheat from South australia around Cape Horn in 1939, The Last Grain Race - unfortunately not available as an ebook - I would buy it in a second if it was available.
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We seem to have similar tastes. I've read all of Eric Newby's, and have enjoyed them all.
From Newby, it's only a short step to Patrick Leigh Fermor. Have you read
A Time of Gifts?
Regarding
The Last Grain Race, if you can bear to read a paper book, you'll find plenty of low-priced copies at
Abe Books.
Mike