Villiers, Alan. Sons of Sinbad. An Account of Sailing with the Arabs in their Dhows, in the Red Sea, around the Coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika: Pearling in the Persian Gulf: and the Life of the Shipmasters, the Mariners and Merchants of Kuwait. New York: Scribner’s, 1940. First U.S. Edition, same year as the first London edition, 8vo, fine industwrapper; pp. xviii+429; with frontispiece map and 48 plates from photos by the Author. Appended with the types of and economics of dhows. Presentation Copy: inscribed and signed by the Author on half-title. Villiers sailed on a deep-sea trading dhow from Aden to Zanzibar and return to Kuwait, calling at ports in the Hadhramaut and on the Somali coast. Only in the first London and first New York printings are the photographs so well reproduced. Although Villiers did not go east of India on this voyage, the design influence of Arabian dhows is much in evidence in South East Asia and the Western Pacific where they sailed on regular trading voyages. Price: GBP 80.00 other currencies   order no. 1159    inquire

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