When he was once asked why he did not write a memoir, muller replied, i should not be able to escape the feeling that i was coining money from the blood of my comrades. This book lends a biographical account of the life of count luckner, the sea devil, the man who commanded the raider seeadler. Before entering the french service, luckner spent time in the bavarian, dutch. To junior rivers, with good wishes, felix count luckner. I would reread and daydream about luckner s exploits. Lowell thomas wrote some wonderful books about exciting, fascinating people. In 1938 he visited new zealand, being acclaimed as an honourable foe. Over an epic voyage, he used cunning and deception to destroy fourteen merchant ships, all the while evading the utterly foxed and infuriated british admiralty in a daring game of cat and mouse. He published his first book about his deeds as early as 1920. Author lowell thomas was an american foreign correspondent. Have been reading so many inflammatory current political books that my demeanor was flagging. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Labor and leftleaning groups accuse him of being a rapist who collaborated with the nazis and was only lionized by. The frontispiece count luckner is detached but is present and laid down inside the book at the appropriate place.
On 12 may 1921, luckner became a freemason of the lodge zur goldenen kugel gro. New book out the cruise of the sea eagle count felix. This book more than any other, i think, put the glory of the seas into me. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Online shopping from a great selection at books store. In his ship seeadler he travelled from germany through the atlantic to the pacific, raiding allied shipping and earning his nickname the sea devil. He roamed the seas like a ghost and sank 500,000 tons of shipping. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Count luckner, the sea devil by lowell thomas librarything. Date of autograph is 1930, portrait is most likely from before then. Sea devils focsle count luckners adventures by lowell thomas 1929 ww1 book ebay. Until 1911, interrupted only by his military service in the imperial german navy from 19031904, he lived an unsteady life, earning his living by working as a seaman, a. The historian of our society, wolfgang seilkopf, knows many details on his biography and did researches over many years and collected a huge amount of pictures. I look forward to being able to find a copy when it is available.
Signed count luckner the sea devil by lowell thomas ebth. Terry kearns suggested i get in touch with you im just now finishing a book about the human history of the galapagos islands. He came to new zealand as a prisoner of war after his ship sms seeadler was wrecked in the society islands and made a daring but unsuccessful escape from motuihe island. It is a marvelous and always enthralling true adventure story by a man who always saw the silver lining. His last wish was that it should be said of him, as it had been said of his own hero, another mason, buffalo bill cody. Ahoy macs web log tidbits from the book, cruise of. This was a great book its the story of count luckner and how he took a sailing ship yes a square rigger and raided allied shipping during ww1. We are republishing these classic works in affordable. I first read it as a teenager and i cant imagine a better book for a teen. Thus ending a career that might have come straight out of the pages of the boys own. Sea devils focsle count luckners adventures by lowell. Beside a permanent excibition for visitors we like to o. Labor and leftleaning groups accuse him of being a rapist who collaborated with the nazis and was only lionized by conservatives who had a naive, idealistic view of warfare.
I hope this intrigues you and your readers enough without ruining much of the neat detail we will see for the first time in this book. I picked up the book from the us naval institute some months ago, but just pulled it out to begin, hopefully, a good read. Sea devils focsle count luckner s adventures by lowell thomas 1929 ww1 book ebay. Discover book depositorys huge selection of luckner books online. The life and times of a seadevil one of my visits to a second hand book store rewarded me with a 1923 volume of a book with the imaginative title the seadevil conquers america. Luckner grew up in cham, in eastern bavaria and received his early education from the jesuits in passau. The book includes six maps, over 100 photos many previously unpublished and an eightpage colour section. Of course there are many, many other influences on me, but when i was young this was the one. After the outbreak of war in august 1914, count luckner joined the high seas. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Some of the pictures had never been published before. On his return home in 1901, he buckled down, joining the imperial german navy in 1910. Ventures and voyages on the seven seas shipwrecks, scuba diving, maritime history, nautical, sailing, naval topics and ocean mysteries 14. He was a jack of all trades, naval officer, pirate, writer, and a global ambassador of international understanding on many lecture tours.
The seeadler was a sailing ship that had broken through the british blockade and played havoc with allied shipping in the atlantic and pacific during the latter part of the war. These three books relate bigger than life adventure. He was the jovial german, a blueeyed giant of an aristocrat, who in 1917 gave a human face to the hated enemy after he was captured in the pacific. Felix count of luckner was born in dresden in june 1881. He was a great white scout, a loyal and honest man, and this. It is hard to tell what is true and what is fantasy in his stories that he publicised in his books and speeches he. A large number of innacuracies and outright mistakes have been made in the telling of the story over the years. I believe this is an english translation of a book originaly published in germany,but for some reason lowell thomas is listed as the author. In 1921 the book about his adventures became a bestseller. There are a number of historic photographs inside the book and these are present. Felix count luckner signed book the sea devils foc.
Before entering the french service, luckner spent time in the bavarian, dutch and. During world war i, luckner ran an old sailing ship, disguised as a norwegian fishing vessel, through the allied blockade. If you want info on luckner you may want to start with his own account of his adventures,the sea devil. Yet his life is also marked by a number of paradoxes. Based on s popular comic series but now in book form, this book follows the adventures of dave, who carelessly made fun of a logical positivist. Buy count luckner, the sea devil by lowell thomas online at alibris. The sea devil, his translated memoirs, charts a wild sevenyearlong oe, with jobs including kangaroo hunter, lighthouse keeper, circus worker, professional boxer, fisherman, guard in the mexican army, railway worker, magician and bartender.
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