Grain race information

Grain Race or The Great Grain Race was the informal name for the annual windjammer sailing season generally from South Australia's grain ports on Spencer...

The Last Grain Race is a 1956 book by Eric Newby, a travel writer, about his time spent on the four-masted steel barque Moshulu during the vessel's last...

travel writer. His works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain Race and A Small Place in Italy. Newby was born in Barnes, London, and grew...

only as "Ploddy Gustav". Of the 13 ships which took part in the 1939 grain race, 10 were Erikson ships. Tjerimai (1913–1925, three-masted composite (wood...

later wrote about his experiences of that voyage in the book The Last Grain Race, and went on to become a famous travel writer. Moshulu arrived in Queenstown...

portal The Great Tea Race of 1866 Grain race Sail Training International - The Tall Ships Races 2011 "The First Tall Ships Race". Sail Training International...

Netherlands. Sailing ships, such as the windjammers in the heyday of the Great Grain Race between Australia and Europe during the 1930s, often preferred the Cape...

Ireland to Australia aboard Moshulu, as chronicled in his books The Last Grain Race and Learning the Ropes. It was the only land that the crew saw on the...

Horn carrying wool, grain, and gold from Australia back to Europe; these included the windjammers in the heyday of the Great Grain Race of the 1930s. Much...

1938 final voyage of the four-masted barque Moshulu in his book The Last Grain Race. The route sailed by a sailing ship was always heavily dictated by the...

grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been...

Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the...

for a higher price, as told, for example, in The Great Tea Race of 1866 or The Last Grain Race. Typically, ships were loaded in the Spencer Gulf area, Port...

Pure Grain was a dark bay or brown mare with a white star bred by William and Robert Barnett. She was sired by Polish Precedent, a lightly-raced horse...

Grain in Ear (Chinese: 芒种; Korean: 망종; RR: Mang Jong) is a 2005 Chinese film written and directed by Korean Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu. The title refers...

Rome, Cura Annonae ("care of Annona") was the import and distribution of grain to the residents of the cities of Rome and, after its foundation, Constantinople...

A Grain of Wheat is a historical novel written by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, first published as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers...

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world. The many species of wheat together make up the...

or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used for food for humans; the plant is used for animal feed and...

on the round-trip from Ireland to South Australia in his book The Last Grain Race (1956), and several pictures of Port Lincoln as it appeared in 1939 are...

American and Australian English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000...

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and Imperial power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002) Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties...