Author: Kate Lance
Publisher: UNSW Press
From Baird Maritime:
A delightful, warts-and-all, biography of one of the world's most notable chroniclers of seafaring life.
In a way Alan Villiers was a fossil. Born too late to really participate in the era of maritime sail, he devoted his life to chronicling what remained of it in the twentieth century.
A prickly perfectionist, Villiers made plenty of enemies but he also enjoyed the support and backing of many others. His memorial is still to be found in libraries all over the world. Many of his forty odd books were best sellers and his articles, particularly in the National Geographic, were published to great acclaim.
Your reviewer first experienced Villiers through that medium in the 1960s and has enjoyed and valued his work ever since. This fine biography does him proud.
Ordering information:
UNSW Press
Sydney, Australia
Web: www.unswpress.com.au
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