by Alan Villiers

A breathtaking coffee table book following Villiers' 9 month journey sailing in the Red Sea, round the coasts of Arabia, to Zanzibar, Tanganyika and pearling in the Persian Gulf

Sailor, travel writer, and photographer Alan Villiers had a lifelong fascination with traditional sailing techniques, which in 1938 led to him embarking on a remarkable journey by how 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 and back to Oman and Bahrain, ending in Kuwait in 1939. In Sons of Sindbad a classic of Arabian travel and of nautical writing and photography, he captures the tail-end of a centuries-old maritime way of life that has now vanished

• Hardback
• 224 pages
• ISBN: 9780948065750