Cruise of the Conrad

CRUISE OF THE CONRAD

ALAN VILLIERS

To sail a fully rigged ship round the world: to stand at the helm of a ship perfect in every detail but only one hundred feet long, and two hundred tons burthen: to command a band of young men in a two year voyage in a ship such as the great adventurers used in their discoveries: this is what Alan Villiers set out to do in 1934.

In Cruise of the Conrad he tells how he did his job; how his little frigate, after crossing the Atlantic was blown on the Brooklyn rocks in a harbour blizzard; how refloating his ship, he sailed south with his youthful crew to Rio then across to the Cape of Good Hope; how with the Joseph Conrad racing before the Roaring Forties, he reached the Far East Indies, then on to Singapore north by Australia, to New Zealand and eastwards to the South Pacific finally rounding the Horn and back to port.

This is the truthful story of a great voyage, packed with adventure and the joy of a fine ship under sail.

Cruise of the Conrad This new edition, with a foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston highlights Alan Villiers' early contribution to sail training and the biography of Alan Villiers by William Facey celebrates the remarkable life of the author and his contribution to maritime literature.

Alan Villiers enrolled as an apprentice on the barque Rothesay Bay at 15 and he continued serving on tall ships and writing vivid accounts of the last days of sail as well as capturing the life with a remarkable photographic collection.

216 x 135 mm | 416 pp illus.| ISBN 0 9547062 8 5 | £12.95 pbk

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