PIONEERS OF THE SEVEN SEAS

AUTHORS - Alan Villiers

PUBLICATION - Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1956

CONDITION - Good condition. Has had a plastic cover taped over the blurb on the inner flaps leaving tape remnants. Ex library pocket remains on back endpaper. A Jack Churchouse book plate and inscription on front endpaper and Ship and Marine Society library stamps. Foxing on endpaper but interior clean and tidy. Dustwrapper has bumping and rubbing top and bottom, ex-library label residue on lower spine.

PRICE - $25

DESCRIPTION - Villiers aims at a general background of the subject of shipping by the individual treatment of the more arresting and important of the pioneers. His pages teem with colourful figures from the true pioneers - the Chinese, the Polynesians, the Indians, the Egyptians, Arabs and Phoenicians - to the Vikings and Henry the Navigator with his school at Sagres, from which all our European sea routes sprang.

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