Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds

Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds

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Publisher Description

When Australian journalist Alan Villiers sailed on the last of the giant merchant windjammers in the 1920s and '30s, his writings and photographs made him famous. Villiers crewed on beautiful Herzogin Cecilie and tragic Grace Harwar, took tiny Joseph Conrad around the globe, sailed on Arabian dhows, led wartime landing craft, captained Mayflower II across the Atlantic, and inspired modern sail training and ship restoration projects.
Drawn from his personal diaries, this award-winning biography of the author-adventurer reveals both his mythmaking and his achievements. It is a tribute to the greatest sailing ships ever launched – and to the extraordinary man who loved them. The Second Edition has been fully updated and contains over 100 photos, many of them new.

 

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2020
October 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
486
Pages
PUBLISHER
Seabooks Press
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
22.8
MB

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