In 1938 an eighteen-year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque ended up as a dockside restaurant in phi...In 1938 an eighteen-year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque ended up as a dockside restaurant in philadelphia; the young apprentice went on to become one of the greatest travel writers of this century.