The Making of a Sailor: The Photographic Story of Schoolships Under Sail by Alan J. Villiers (PT199)

Published 1938: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original green cloth with white titles on the spine. 190 + 45 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled endpapers and edges. Boards are rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age but remain firm and intact. Scarce!. (PT199)

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An intriguing illustrated copy of this photographic story of a voyage around the world.

The illustrations within this book are reproductions of photographs made on the voyage of the ship Joseph Conrad around the world in 1934-36.

Alan J. Villiers was a writer, adventure, photographer and mariner having also written The Sea in Ships, Last of the Windships and Voyage of the Parma.

With one hundred and ninety photographic plates and 45 pages with text. Google books.