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Alan John Villiers, DSC (23 September 1903 – 3 March 1982) was a writer, adventurer, photographer and mariner. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Villiers first went to sea at age 15 and sailed on board traditionally rigged vessels, including the full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad.
Learn about Alan Villiers, a pioneer of maritime photography and a co-founder of the National Maritime Museum collection. Explore his adventures on sailing ships, whaling expeditions, and film projects in the 20th century.
Alan Villiers has 124 books on Goodreads with 1671 ratings. Alan Villiers’s most popular book is Men, Ships, and the Sea.
Quick Reference. (1903–82), British master mariner and maritime author, born in Melbourne, Australia. He went to sea at the age of 15 in the barque Rothesay Bay and served altogether five years in square-rigged ships.
Melbourne-born Alan Villiers (1903-1982) was a noted maritime adventurer, journalist, novelist, sailor and photographer who devoted most of his life to the sea and the ships that harnessed the power of the winds.
Alan Villiers was only in his mid-forties when he wrote his autobiography The Set of the Sails, but by then he had already lived a life that made it well worth reading. In 1920 he went to sea on square-riggers, but an accident forced him into life ashore as a journalist. At twenty-five he sailed again on a four-masted barque around Cape Horn:
A fascinating photographic exhibition showcasing 50 photographs from the late 1930s when Australian journalist, novelist, sailor and adventurer Alan Villiers travelled to Arabia to photograph, film and write about what he believed were the last days of merchant sailing ships.
