The author, an Australian sailor and maritime historian, made a name for himself as an adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s. He visited Arabia in 1938. In this tit
When Villiers wrote 'Sons of Sinbad' in 1940, an account of his Arabian voyages, he used only a handful of the thousands of photographs he had taken. This volum
Alan Villiers travelled to Arabia because he was certain that he was living through the last days of sail, and was determined to record as much of them as he wa