Sons of Sindbad

William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji, Grace Pundyk, Alan Villiers (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

2010
Sylph Editions (Verlag)
978-0-9558894-6-2 (ISBN)

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Alan Villiers (1903-82), the Australian sailor and maritime historian, first made a name for himself as an adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s by combining his seafaring skills with his talent as a pioneering photojournalist.

Jizef Czapski (1896-1993) was an artist, author, critic, and one of the founders of the influential Polish emigr (c) monthly Kultura (published in Paris until 2000). But who was the real Czapski? This cahier is a bold attempt by Keith Botsford to answer this question. Violating convention, he attempts to write Czapski's autobiography, or a biography from within . Besides Czapski's own words, twelve of his paintings bear testimony to this momentous life

Alan Villiers (1903-82) was a recognized maritime adventurer of the twentieth century, combining seafaring skills, writing ability and pioneering photojournalism, and made a name for himself with resulting bestsellers such as Falmouth for Orders (1929), which follows his voyage on one of the last grain races round Cape Horn from Australia to Britain. He served on the committees for a number of maritime bodies and, as a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, played a fundamental role in establishing its historic photograph collection. Overall he published more than forty books and innumerable articles and was well known around the world as a lecturer and broadcaster.

During a life spent largely at sea, the Australian writer Alan Villiers (1903-82) both lived and recorded the last days of commercial sail around the world, writing innumerable articles and more than forty books, many of them bestsellers in their day. Combining his gifts as intrepid seaman, writer, photographer, lecturer and adviser on maritime history and traditions, he built up a unique body of work on the world of tall ships that vanished during the first half of the 20th century.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2012
Zusatzinfo	Illus.
Verlagsort	Lewes
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-9558894-6-4 / 0955889464
ISBN-13	978-0-9558894-6-2 / 9780955889462
Zustand	Neuware