The deep sea fishermen

Villiers, Alan John

Hodder&Stoughton

The War With Cape Horn brings the Cape Horn story into the middle of the twentieth century. For a hundred years sailing ships had been making the serious voyage, with profit to the owners but at great cost in vessels and in men. The big steel barks carried thousands of tons and their sail-spread was enormous; their crews, however, were small and very young. Americans, British, German, French, Scandinavian ships--they risked the Horn each year by the hundreds, and Allan Villiers vividly records their achievements and disasters. He has gone to sources heretofore unused--at Lloyd's and at the British National Maritime Museum. But his most valuable source has been the ship-masters whom he has known; and he writes, of course, out of his own long experience in deep-water sail, from able seaman to captain.

The war with Cape Horn,

Hodder and Stoughton

A tribute to the last days of the great merchant sailboats and their crews from a unique photographic talent. The photographic work of Alan Villiers is arguably the most important photo-historical record of early-twentieth-century maritime history in the world. In capturing on film life aboard the last of the great merchant sail ships, he has provided us with a singular record of the end of an era. Passionate about the sea from an early age, Villiers worked on several commercial sailing vessels before taking on a job as a journalist on a whaling expedition to Antarctica in 1923, which ultimately resulted in the writing of his first book. Other acclaimed books would follow (as well as one film). These powerful images, published for the first time in this volume, date from the late 1920s through the 1930s and were taken aboard the three ships Villiers worked on during this period: the Herzogin Cecilie, the Grace Harwar, and the Panama. 140 duotones

The Last of the Wind Ships

Engineering & Transportation

Villiers, Alan.

Transportation

W.W.Norton&Company

This new Blue Guide will prove indispensable in helping the visitor to discover Thailand's rich culture.It provides detailed coverage of the art and architecture of the whole country, taking the traveler from the famous monuments and museums of Bangkok and Chiang Mai to small village temples and the major Khmer ruins of the northeast. The forests and mountains of the north, the beautiful islands of the south, and the national parks are thoroughly explored. 35 drawings, 30 maps and plans

Blue Guide Thailand (Blue Guides)

Travel

Pattison, Gavin

Asia

Blue Guide

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Monsoon Seas: The Story of the Indian Ocean

History

Kessinger Publishing

Vanished Fleets: Sea Stories from Old Van Diemen's Land

Vanished fleets: Sea stories from old Van Dieman's land

P.Stephens

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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