Whalers of the midnight sun, 1934: title page (by Alan Villiers)
Sealer's shanty [online journal], viewed 5 October 2017: ("Alan Villiers started his life as an adventurer by going to sea at the age of fifteen. He worked in Hobart for the Mercury in the early 1820s before taking leave to visit Antarctica on a Norwegian whaling voyage. He returned to the Mercury and achieved his dream of being a reporter, but was unable to resist the call of the sea for long. He became a sea Captain in the ‘last days of sail’ and wrote many adventure books about sailing." Born in Melbourne.) http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/fahan_mi_shipwrecks/journals/Sealers/ssvilliers12.pdf