The Last Time Around Cape Horn - by William F Stark (Paperback)

The Last Time Around Cape Horn is a thrilling memoir of adventure, passion, and loss set on one of the largest sailing vessels in the world.

William F.

Stark, a young Dartmouth student, leaves his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer bound for Australia.

The journey takes 128 days and covers 12,000 miles of treacherous seas, including the fearsome Cape Horn.

Stark vividly chronicles his experience on the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949, working brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with huge swells and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high.

The book also poignantly evokes Stark's passionate love affair he left behind.

With pages of memorable photographs included, this is a must-read for anyone who loves adventure, sailing, and the romance of life at sea.