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Alan John Villiers (1903–1982)

Autor de Men, Ships, and the Sea

74+ Obras 1,324 Miembros 18 Reseñas

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Obras de Alan John Villiers

Men, Ships, and the Sea (1962) 402 copias
Captain James Cook (1967) 128 copias
The Way of a Ship (1953) 64 copias
Set of the Sails (1949) 49 copias
Cruise of the Conrad (1937) 46 copias
The war with Cape Horn (1971) 40 copias
Sons of Sinbad (1940) 39 copias
The last of the wind ships (1934) 36 copias
By Way of Cape Horn (1930) 36 copias
Falmouth for orders (1929) 30 copias
Joey Goes to Sea (Maritime) (2005) 24 copias
The Coral Sea (1949) 23 copias
The Battle of Trafalgar (1965) 16 copias
Stormalong (1937) 15 copias
Give me a ship to sail (1958) 13 copias
The Making of a Sailor (1938) 7 copias
Pilot Pete (1953) 7 copias
Grain race (1933) 7 copias
Sea dogs of to-day (1931) 6 copias
The deep sea fishermen (1970) 3 copias
Pioneers of Seven Seas (1956) 2 copias
Modern Mariners (1937) 2 copias
My Favourite Sea Stories (1972) 2 copias
The Indian Ocean (1953) 2 copias

Obras relacionadas

The New Junior Classics Volume 09: Sport and Adventure (1938) — Contribuidor — 172 copias
This England (1966) 171 copias
The Book of Fishes (1939) 49 copias
The Book of the Sea (1954) — Traductor — 36 copias
Wondrous World of Fishes (1965) 32 copias
Modelling Ships in Bottles (1972) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones31 copias
The Penguin Book of Sea Stories (1977) — Contribuidor — 15 copias
The Saga of Ships (1968) — Introducción — 4 copias

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Captain James Cook was published in 1967 by an author born in 1903. Alan Villiers might be called one of the last great sailing ship seamen. It is hard to separate the book from Villiers because while a biography of James Cook, it is also an in-depth experience of full-rigged sailing ships through the eyes of a great sailor. Villiers crewed on some of the last full-rigged working sailing ships in the 1920s (they lasted that long because they were cheaper than coal ships for some uses). He then bought his own and trained sailors. He went all over the world. He is a poetic writers who wrote for National Geographic among others. He was famous by the 1950s and wrote a couple dozen books. This biography of Cook may be his masterpiece, though I suspect there are some more hidden treasures to be uncovered.

His writing reminds me of Joseph Mitchell ("Up in the Old Hotel"). Energetic vocabulary and description that leaves one bewildered and in awe. The sort of thing you might read for a lifetime with profit, this is a book to learn from. And it transports back to another age. Villiers is from another age, he was in the 20th century but solidly in the stream of 18th century maritime life. Perhaps the perfect person to write about Cook, whom he unabashedly admires, understanding the challenges he faced and overcame. The book is not perfect, the first sections are not so good and it's probably not the best to get all the facts on Cook, though it is essential to experiencing life on the sea. Nevertheless the core of the book, the three journeys, are well worth a rediscovery.
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Stbalbach | otra reseña | Jan 25, 2021 |
The Coral Sea is between Australis and the Solomon Islands, to the east of Indonesia. The region plays largely run the explorations by the Dutch and English in the 18th and 19th centuries. This is a history of not only explorations, but of outlaws, desperados, runaway whalemen, beachcombers, treacherous waters, blackbirders and missionaries. Contains maps drawn by Stephen J. Voorhies and numerous historic photographs, accompanying those of the author.
 
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Alhickey1 | Oct 5, 2020 |
This is such a cute story and the fact that is is based on true events makes it even more special. Joey is a little ginger kitten who went to sea aboard the Joseph Conrad with author Alan Villiers. According to Villiers, the events in the story are real. Joey caught flying fish, fought with a bird, and really did fall overboard!
The illustrations are wonderful, too.
 
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SeriousGrace | Oct 29, 2018 |
A very enjoyable retrospective of a life touched by the sea: Villier's first ventures into sailing, his move to a shore life as sailing boats ceased to be a major means of transport, his return for voyages and eventually as a life. His individual voyages may be better – more fully – told elsewhere, but the early narrative is perhaps as good a tale of going to sea as Eric Newby's The Last Grain Race, and perhaps even better as Villiers struggles with working ships as a career just at the point when sailing is being abandoned. Overall, a good read.… (más)
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Miembros
1,324
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18
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