The Indian Ocean

Museum Press Ltd, 1952, good condition, no dustwrapper on this copy

On the three great oceans, the Indian was, upon the whole, always the most kindly to sailing-ships. It was the flying-fish ocean of the old songs. Though the least of the three oceans - it is less than one-third the area of the great Pacific - it is, in many ways, the most interesting. Upon its vast expanse rests islands and island groups in every way as interesting as those in the Pacific. Upon the whole, the weather is better and more reliable. Thus Villiers begins a tour and a history of the Indian Ocean with all its geographical and cultural diversity...