The sea journal : seafarers' sketchbooks / Huw Lewis-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis-Jones, Huw, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seafaring life.

Seafaring life--Sources.

Sailors--Diaries.

Sailors.

Ocean travel.

Notebooks.

Diaries.

Genre:

Diaries.

Sources.

Sketchbooks.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 x 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2019.

Summary:

The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils. 0In this remarkable gathering of private journals, log books, letters and diaries, we follow the voyages of intrepid sailors, from the frozen polar wastes to South Seas paradise islands, as they set down their immediate impressions of all they saw. They capture their experiences while at sea, giving us a precious view of the oceans and the creatures that live in them as they were when they were scarcely known and right up to the present day. In a series of biographical portraits, we meet officers and ordinary sailors, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers. A handful of contemporary mariners provide their thoughts on how art remains integral to their voyaging lives. 0Often still bearing the traces of their nautical past, the intriguing and enchanting sketches and drawings in this book brilliantly capture the spirit of the oceans and the magic of the sea.

"In this remarkable collection of illustrated private journals, log books, letters, and diaries, we follow firsthand the voyages of intrepid sailors from the frozen polar wastes to South Seas paradise islands. And we meet a fascinating cast of real characters: officers and crew, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers- including Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian who sailed with Magellan; Tupia, a Tahitian who joined Captain Cook's first voyage; buccaneer Bartholomew Sharp, who menaced the Spanish Main; and Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: We are all crew / Don Walsh

Introduction: Unknown waters / Huw Lewis-Jones

Seafaring sketches. George Anson ; Louis Apol ; Sigismund Bacstrom ; Jeanne Baret ; Edward Barlow ; Francis Beaufort ; Charles Benson ; Peter Blake ; William Bligh ; Else Bostelmann

Just dive in / Robin Knox-Johnston. Annie Brassey ; Gabriel Bray ; Johnny Brochmann ; Francis Chichester ; Louis Choris ; Frederic Church ; William Coates ; Adriaen Coenen

Floating along / Roz Savage. John Kingsley Cook ; Edward Cree ; Aaron Cushman ; Joseph Desbarres ; Francis Drake ; John Everett ; Edward Fanshawe ; Rose de Freycinet ; Vasco da Gama

Unlikely voyages / Spider Anderson. Joseph Gilbert ; Konrad Grünenbeg ; Zheng He ; Erik Hesselberg ; Gloria Hollister ; Frank Hurley ; Kumataro Ito ; Rockwell Kent

Back for more / Arved Fuchs. Benjamin Leigh Smith ; Henry Mahon ; Nevil Maskelyne ; William Meyers ; Georg Müller ; Horatio Nelson ; Paul-Émile Pajot

Where the road ends / Philip Marsden. Julius Payer ; Antonio Pigafetta ; Nicholas Pocock ; Piri Reis ; Batholomew Sharp ; William Smyth ; William Speiden ; Owen Stanley

Farthest south / Rodney Russ. Georg Steller ; Tomás de Suría ; Guillaume Le Testu ; George Tobin ; Tupaia ; Joseph Turner ; Susan Veeder ; Willem van de Velde

Paper and ice / Kari Herbert. Robert Weir ; Gerrit Westerneng ; William Wyllie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0500021279

9780500021279

OCLC:

1061793609