... on opera J. ROGER BAKER THE INDOMITABLE SAILS AGAIN For me, as for most of the younger members of the audience, it was like seeing a new opera-- a new Britten opera too. Billy Budd has not been seen at Covent Garden since its first dozen performances ...

... Francis Chichester With seeming facility and undoubted sincerity Alan Villiers has written a score of books about sailing ships and sailing men, and no one perhaps has done more to keep alive our interest in the great days of the tea clippers and the grain ...

... the radius of at least semi -autobiography. Mr Colson, with an extremely tough apprenticeship behind him, knows about canal sailing in this country, and his book, illustrated amusingly by John Jensen's drawings, is about as rewarding a record of getting ...

... Racing Sailormen F. S. Cooper Percival Marshall. 17s 0d. This history of sail-barge racing is the work of a great authority who is an historian and a practical man to boot. Thames, Medway, Blackwater and Orwell races are each dealt with in considerable ...

... underworld. In this new adventure, Angelique, once a favourite of Louis XIV, is helping to rescue Huguenots from La Rochelle and sailing with them on the most hazardous of voyages, across the Atlantic to the New World, to find a lasting love at the end of her ...

... on the progress of design. A large range of photographs and drawings illustrate this fascinating chronicle. In open ocean sailing races Erroll Bruce has proved one of our most successful racing skippers, something of a pioneer, in fact, in the art of driving ...

... pronounced success! Well, there is another pronounced success in London now and it is by the same author. Mr. Noel Coward's Sail Away is a hit, a wow, or anything you please that means hilarious entertainment with at least six really good songs. The whole ...

... 15s, is a first novel by an author who has already produced two amusing books about the arts of coarse rugby and coarse sailing. As might be expected, the present book is funny, inventive and might, with some truth, have been given the title of coarse ...

... have to remiru them of these lost treasures of nature. The number of men still living who sailed as youths in the clipper ships during the last ku of romantic sail, rounding the Horn and I u Cape of Good Hope, is of course diminishing rapidly. Their r ...

... Experiences of the last days of romantic sail never seem to pall, perhaps because they are apt to be well written and because the sea seems to breed good writers. Elis Karlsson is no exception, and this man who sailed in the famous four- masted barque Herzogin ...

... which description one might deduce every tranquil circumstance and every luxurious detail. In fact, the author and his wife sailed their 24-ton yawl over from England and, without a crew, as is their custom, explored a part of the west coast of France which ...

... by Captain A. G. Course of the many and remarkable vessels which sailed under the house flag of Devitt and Moore, notably in the mid-nineteenth century, that golden age of romantic sail. Oliver Warner's GREAT SEAMEN (Bell and Sons. 16s.) is a series of ...