Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. Of course there are many, many other influences on me, but when i was young this was the one. Book in very good condition with solid binding and. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Abebooks offers millions of new, used, rare and outofprint books, as well as cheap. Labor and leftleaning groups accuse him of being a rapist who collaborated with the nazis and was only lionized by. He was a jack of all trades, naval officer, pirate, writer, and a global ambassador of international understanding on many lecture tours. In the late 70s i bought a 1920s book about count luckner and the. Dublin, oifig diolta foillseachain an rialtais, 1936. Migration processes in soil and groundwater zone by ludwig luckner and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. He published his first book about his deeds as early as 1920. Luckner slipped through the british blockade and before his capture near the fiji islands sept. German sea devil imprisoned in new zealand nzhistory. 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.
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. Noted for commanding the german commerce raider sms seeadler sea eagle during world war i. Luckner grew up in cham, in eastern bavaria and received his early education from the jesuits in passau. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. He came from a long line of prussianstyle asskickers, mostly cavalrymen, and luckner was pretty much expected to join the cavalry and carry on the tradition of stomping balls in the name of the vaterland. Although luckner would spend the rest of the war as a prisoner, his exploits after the war might have been the most significant of his life. Seeteufel, abenteuer aus meinem leben by luckner, graf and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Original green cloth hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar.
To say that he was a colorful figure is an absolute understatement. This book lends a biographical account of the life of count luckner, the sea devil, the man who commanded the raider seeadler. Count luckner, the sea devil by lowell thomas alibris. Felix count of luckner was born in dresden in june 1881. During the great war he became famous as a successful, but always gallant raider in the south sea, until. In world war i he commanded 191617 the commerce raider seeadler. During the great war he became famous as a successful, but always gallant raider in the south sea, until the merchant raider under his command, the sailingvessel seeadler, shipwrecked on a reef off the small island mopelia today maupihaa. This story has been told in his book seeteufel erobert amerika sea devil conquers america. On october 11, 2018, in france a new book has been published by edition paulsen.
Ventures and voyages on the seven seas shipwrecks, scuba diving, maritime history, nautical, sailing, naval topics and ocean mysteries 14. 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. Yet his life is also marked by a number of paradoxes. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. Under the name of phylax ludicke hires on russian ship niobe. Buy count luckner, the sea devil by lowell thomas online at alibris. Had a copy of one or two of his books when a kid, probably bought for me by my father. This book more than any other, i think, put the glory of the seas into me. Even that fact is a small sensation as the content of the book mainly.