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Author Lewis-Jones, Huw, author.

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

Publication Info. London : Thames & Hudson, 2019.

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 Granby, Main Library - Oversize Shelving  910.45 LEW OVERSIZE    Check Shelf
Description 304 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 20 x 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Seafaring life.
Seafaring life -- Sources.
Sailors -- Diaries.
Notebooks.
Notebooks. (OCoLC)fst01039597
Sailors. (OCoLC)fst01103543
Seafaring life. (OCoLC)fst01110214
ISBN 0500021279 hardback
9780500021279 hardback
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