The SET OF THE SAILS (292 pp.]—Alan Villiers—Scribner ($3.75). At the age of eleven, Australian Alan Villiers secretly renamed himself after a sailor who had come to his father’s house in Melbourne ...
MONSOON SEAS (337 pp.)—Alan Villiers—McGraw-Hill ($4.75). An albatross glided to a landing in West Australia 20 years ago, with a message round its neck. On a metal band someone had painfully punched ...