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Marion Kaplan is a London-born photojournalist and writer. She lived in Africa for twenty years and, as freelance, worked for a wide range of magazines and newspapers including National Geographic, Time and People in the United States, The Observer and The Times in London. From her Africa work arose her book on the post-independence period, Focus Africa (Doubleday and Elm Tree). Later, based in ... Read more on Marion Kaplan
"Photojournalist Marion Kaplan recalls sailing on one of the last ocean-going trading dhows from Dubai to Tanzania." - RYA Magazine
"Marion Kaplan was asked by National Geographic in 1972 to record voyaging on the last of the Arab dhows. Four decades later, she describes that vanished world." - Classic Boat
"Marion Kaplan, then living in Kenya, shipped aboard two working dhows for a National Geographic story. Despite being a woman in a male-dominated world, she started as passenger and ended as crew. Her story, published in 1974 and again here, must be the last of its kind. It's a singular story with photos to match." - Classic Boat
"Every time I saw a dhow under sail I marvelled at their grace and speed and I always hankered to emulate Villiers and make a long voyage on one. It was not to be. Sailing dhows are almost non-existent now and the skills will soon be lost, so it is timely to have this record of voyaging and life aboard one for posterity." - Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
