Maritime Heritage

The Windfall Yachts - A Legacy of Goodwill

Michael Cudmore (Fwd. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh)
Publisher: Topsy II Publishing

Ref: BKS000303

The Windfalls were a fleet of over 100 high quality offshore yachts built in Germany in the 1930's to provide training for the German armed forces. They were taken after the 2nd World War as reparations and the majority sailed to England. They were used by the services until gradually they have been transferred to civilian owners.

The publisher is donating their proceeds from this book to Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)
Format: Hardback: 255x175x19mm; 200pp; Illus.
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Price: £25.00

Maritime Britain - A Celebration of Britain's Maritime Heritage

Paul Heiney
Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical

Ref: BKS000013

Britain is an island nation. Its history and character are defined by the sea and its music and literature are shot through with seafaring themes. Exciting and inspirational stories of trade, exploration, war and adventure are stamped upon its harbours and famous ships…
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Price: £12.99

Sons of Sindbad: Sailing with the Arabs in Their Dhows, in the Red Sea, Round the Coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika, Pearling in the Persian ... the Shipmasters and the Mariners of Kuwait

Alan Villiers (Ed. William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji, Grace Pundyk)
Publisher: Arabian Publishing Ltd

Ref: BKS000216

Reprint of Alan Villiers' classic account, first published in 1940, of his voyage as a crew-member in a Kuwaiti dhow from Aden to Zanzibar and Rufiji, and then back to the Gulf and Kuwait with the monsoon winds. Villiers also spent some weeks with the Kuwaiti pearling fleet in the Gulf. Vivid and highly readable, Sons of Sindbad is not only a classic of maritime writing but also one of the finest books of Arabian travel.
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Price: £25.00

Spirit of the Sea

Marie-France Boyer
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Ref: BKS000188

The fisherman’s way of life, always at the mercy of the violence of the elements, is disappearing. Fishing over the last fifty years has been completely transformed by industrialization, and small-scale coastal fishing is today in decline. Yet many of the old rituals remain – memorials for those lost at sea, carnivals and festivals. This beautiful book celebrates this harsh and singular world, and reveals the poetry of its everyday and functional objects.
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Price: £15.95

The Last of the Wind Ships

Alan Villiers (Intro. Basil Greenhill)
Publisher: The Harvill Press

Ref: BKS000217

A photo-historical record of the last days of the wind-borne merchant ships. Taken during the 1920s and 1930s by Alan Villiers, a professional seaman and a narrator and geographer for the National Geographic Society, the photographs provide an insight into a real way of life.
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Price: £30.00

Pioneers of the Pacific - Voyages of Exploration 1787 -1810

Nigel Rigby and Pieter van der Merwe (Intro. Glyn Williams)
Publisher: National Maritime Museum

Ref: BKS000215

This book tells the stories of Pacific exploration which continued the work of Captain Cook. These voyages, by William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, Le Perouse and Arthur Phillip, span a time that saw Britain become the world's leading maritime power.
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Price: £20.00

Sons of Sindbad: The Photographs

Alan Villiers
Publisher: National Maritime Museum

Ref: BKS000214

This large-format book of Villiers' beautiful photographs from his voyage reveals the experiences faced by sailors in a unique and perilous environment. Far more images are included than he originally published in the three editions of 'Sons of Sindbad' and they vividly capture the beauty of the dhows and the lives of his Arab crewmates. All are from the magnificent Villiers Collection in the National Maritime Museum, and they establish his right to be recognised as much as a great travel photographer as a writer, rivalling Wilfred Thesiger.
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Price: £30.00