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Alan Villiers

Born: 1903

Died: 1982

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Born: 1903

Died: 1982

Books by Alan Villiers (50 max)

Falmouth for orders: the story of the last clipper ship race around Cape Horn

1929

Men, ships, and the sea

1962

By way of Cape Horn

1930

Vanished fleets: ships and men of old Van Diemen's land

1931

Cruise of the "Conrad": a journal of a voyage round the world, undertaken and carried out in the ship Joseph Conrad, 212 tons, in the years 1934, 1935, and 1936 by way of Good Hope, the South Seas, the East Indies, and Cape Horn.

1937

Sons of Sinbad: an account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows, in the Red Sea, around the coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika; pearling in the Persian Gulf; and the life of the shipmasters, the mariners, and merchants of Kuwait

1940

And not to yield a story of the Outward Bound School of adventure

1953

The way of a ship: being some account of the ultimate development of the ocean-going square-rigged sailing vessel, and the manner of her handling, her voyage-making, her personnel, her economics, her performance, and her end.

1953

Posted missing: the story of ships lost without trace in recent years.

1956

Whaling in the frozen south: being the story of the 1923-24 Norwegian whaling expedition to the Antarctic

1925

Whalers of the midnight sun: a story of modern whaling in the Antarctic

1934

Cruise of the Conrad

1937

Stormalong: the story of a boy's voyage round the world in a full-rigged ship

1938

SONS OF SINDBAD: The Photographs

1940

The Set of the sails: the adventures of a Cape Horn seaman

1949

The set of the sails: the story of a Cape Horn seaman.

1949

The quest of the schooner Argus: a voyage to the Banks and Greenland.

1951

The way of a ship: the story of the square rigged Cape-Horner

1954

Posted missing: the story of ships lost without trace in recent years

1956

The bounty ships of France: the story of the French Cape Horn sailing ships

1972

Vanished Fleets

1974

By way of Cape Horn.

1930

Sea dogs of to-day

1931

The sea in ships: the story of a sailing ship's voyage round cape Horn

1932

Last of the wind ships.: With over 200 photographs by the author.

1934

The Coral Sea.

1949

The quest of the schooner "Argus": a voyage to the Banks and Greenland

1951

Monsoon seas: the story of the Indian Ocean.

1952

The Indian Ocean

1952

The Cutty Sark: the last of a glorious era.

1953

Pioneers of the seven seas.

1956

Of ships and men: a personal anthology.

1962

The Battle of Trafalgar

1965

Captain Cook, the seaman's seaman: a study of the great discoverer

1967

Captain Cook, the seamen's seaman a study of the great discoverer

1967

The war with Cape Horn

1971

Captain James Cook

1978

Whaling in the frozen south being the story of the 1923-24 Norwegian whaling expedition to the Antarctic

1925

Fruit pamphlets

1926

Alan Villiers, W. T. Pentzer, J. R. Magness, M. H. Haller, H. P. Gaston, W. M. Hurst, United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Skinner, Sherman and Esselen, Inc

Falmouth for orders: the story of the last clipper ship race around Cape Horn

1929

Falmouth for orders the story of the last clipper ship race around Cape Horn

1929

By way of Cape Horn

1930

Pirates et aventuriers des mers du sud

1932

The sea in ships the story of a sailing ship's voyage round cape Horn

1932

The sea in ships: the story of a sailing ship's voyage round Cape Horn

1932

Voyage of the "Parma": the great grain race of 1932

1933

Grain race

1933

Stormalong: the story of a boy's voyage around the world in a full-rigged ship

1937

Cruise of the Conrad a journal of a voyage round the world, undertaken and carried out in the ship Joseph Conrad, 212 tons, in the years 1934, 1935 and 1936 by way of Good Hope, the East Indies, the South Seas and Cape Horn

1937

The making of a sailor: the photographic story of schoolships under sail

1938