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# Sons of Sindbad: The Photographs Hardcover – Abridged, December 31, 2006

**Brand:** alan villiers
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## Customer Reviews

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    Pictures from the Maritime Past
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2014*

Author and scholar Grace Pundyk was researching for her masters thesis at Exeter University when she found these previously uncatalogued Alan Villiers photographs at the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.Her academic work eventually resulted in this wonderful publication, a large heavy volume which opens a window on the past era of Arab sail trading (Facey, Al-Hijji and Pundyk, Sons of Sindbad the photographs of Alan Villiers, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 2006).In 1938, Villiers lifelong fascination with traditional sailing techniques led to him embarking on a remarkable journey by dhow down the East African coast and back to the Arabian Gulf. Joining the Kuwaiti crew of the Triumph of Righteousness at Aden, he sailed to Mombasa, Zanzibar and the Rufiji Delta, and from there back to Oman and Bahrain, ending in Kuwait in 1939. Alan Villiers' photographs of his voyages aboard the Arabian dhows record what he saw as the 'last days of sail' in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the coasts of Arabia and north-east Africa.

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    A superb complement to two other books by Captain Villiers
  

*by F***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2012*

This is a large-format book containing magnificent, high-quality reproductions of photographs by the Australian captain Alan Villiers from his voyages on Arab dhows in the Indian Ocean. This book complements two other books by Villiers about ancient trade in the Indian Ocean, "Sons of Sindbad" and "Monsoon Seas: The Story of the Indian Ocean". Villiers was a talented, self-taught author and photographer, and his photographic skill is showcased in this book. His photographs document the look and feel of open-deck dhows, of the work of sailors on those ships, and of shore-side Arab towns from the Red sea to the southern coast of East Africa. All of these photographs document a lost age, before oil and modernity changed these ships and places forever. Especially astounding are the photographs of sailors climbing the masts of dhows and working those ships' sails without assistance from ratlines or other rigging. We are fortunate that these photographs have been archivally preserved and printed in this book.

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    Sons of sinbad - The photographs.
  

*by H***I on Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2014*

It is a good book and I like the photographs. It ,however, reflects the experience of a person(s) who is not part of the culture and limited to part of the whole process. It gives me the feeling that the big things still need to be covered. The book is a good one to keep. I purchased several copies as gifts to friends.

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