Alain Gerbault

Alain Gerbault

Alain Jacques Georges Marie Gerbault was a French sailor, writer and tennis champion, fighter pilot during the First World War, who made a circumnavigation of the world as a single-handed sailor. He eventually settled in the islands of south Pacific Ocean, where he wrote several books about the islanders' way of life. As a tennis player he was ranked the fifth on the French rankings in 1923.