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The Last of the Wind Ships Hardcover - 2000

by Alan John Villiers


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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.

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"HERZOGIN CECILIE" WAS BUILT AT GEESTEMUNDER IN 1902 AS A TRAINING SHIP FOR THE GREAT NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD CO. OF BREMEN STEAMSHIP LINE, AND IN THAT COMPANY'S SERVICE SHE REMAINED UNTIL THE WAR PERIOD.

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  • Title The Last of the Wind Ships
  • Author Alan John Villiers
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 1
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date September 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393050332 / 0393050335
  • Weight 4 lbs (1.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 13.37 x 10.09 x 1.3 in (33.96 x 25.63 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Voyages and travels, Seafaring life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00031881
  • Dewey Decimal Code 910.45
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