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The grain races : the Baltic background

Inbunden bok. London : Conway Maritime Press Ltd. 1986.

Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nyskick. Between 1928 and 1939 Europe's last fleet of deepwater square-rigged ressels raced back to Britain with grain from Australia. The commercial survival of these 'spectacular anachron-isms seems strange enough, but it is odder that virtually all the vessels were based in a tiny Baltic archipelago and most were owned by one man. That man was Gustaf Erikson and the Åland Islands in which he lived were to become the last bastion of com-mercial sail.

Previously, there has been a tend-ency to romanticise the Grain Races, and to see Gustaf Erikson's investment in outmoded technology as a short-term stroke of idiosyncratic genius. However, as well as examining the ships and the voyages in great detail, this book looks more deeply at the phenomenon. Through research into the Åland shipowning tradition the authors show how the islands' wealth was derived almost entirely from shipping and how the enterprise and business acumen of a resourceful people saved Åland from reverting to rural slumber in times of depression. It is in the context of this deep-rooted tradition that Erikson's apparently quixotic ventures are judged Grain Races were the product not of sentimentality or nostalgia, but of hard economic necessity. the

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