Sons of Sindbad - Alan Villiers focuses on the maritime Middle East

3:33 AM Wed 23 Jun 2010 GMT

'The Triumph of Righteousness, photo by Alan Villiers, ? National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK' Australian National Maritime Museum Click Here to view large photo

The beauty and traditions of sailing the Arabian Sea in the 1930s are beautifully captured in an exhibition of photographs by Alan Villiers opening at the Australian National Maritime Museum on 24 June. Sons of Sindbad - the photographs by Alan Villiers features 45 black and white images by this renowned Australian photojournalist and maritime adventurer. Villiers (1903-1982) decided to travel to Arabia in 1938 to record what he believed were the last days of merchant sailing. His photographs take us on an amazing journey through Kuwait's unique maritime past at a time before modernisation and oil. The exhibition begins ...

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by Australian National Maritime Museum