A memorable tale of adventure on the turbulent seas of the Great Southern and Atlantic oceanson one of the most historic voyages of our timefinds its way into paperback. This is William F. Stark's engrossing memoir of the last leg of the Grain Race, and the Pamir's rounding of fearsome Cape Hornthe storm-tossed tip of South America just 600 miles from Antarcticathe veritable Mount Everest of sailing. In 1949, the crew of thirty-four sailors from around the world experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century on a four-masted vessel that carried hundreds of acres of sail. In 128...