The Last of the Wind Ships

By Alan Villiers

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393050335
• ISBN13: 9780393050332
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.2" x 13.4"

Customer Reviews

The Last of the Wind Ships

A wonderful pictorial of the windjammer's life! The black and white pictures show the beauty and the harshness of life aboard a tall ship, in great detail. The large size of the book is needed and appropriate for the photographs. Each photo is accompanied with an excerpt of Alan Villiers writing. Though not written for the pictures, the editors did an excellent job associating snippets of Villiers' writing with his photos. This is an excellent book to linger over on those rainy days that keep you from being out on the water, sailing yourself.