The Western Ocean

Villiers, A: 1957 London, hardcover with dust jacket 288 pages, illustrated. “The Western Ocean: The Story of the North Atlantic” is a narrative history in which master mariner Alan Villiers describes the development of seafaring, trade routes, and ships on the North Atlantic from the age of sail to the mid‑twentieth century. He combines technical detail about sailing ships, steamers, and navigation with vivid accounts of storms, shipwrecks, and the harsh lives of seamen who worked this ocean. In good condition