1933 Voyage of the "Parma": The Great Grain Race of 1932

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty photographs by the author across fifteen plates. Collated complete. A firsthand account of the voyage on the four-masted steel-hulled barque ship the Parma during The Great Grain Race, the informal name for the annual windjammer sailing season generally from South Australia's grain ports on Spencer Gulf to Lizard Point, Cornwall on the south westernmost coast of the United Kingdom. Written and illustrated by Alan John Villiers, a British writer, adventurer, photographer and mariner.