Facsimile pages from the private logbooks and sketchbooks of people at sea across four centuries. Naval officers, whalers, a ship’s surgeon, naturalists, a young woman on an emigrant voyage, modern sailors and marine biologists. Watercolors of coastlines drawn as navigational aids, sketches of animals nobody had names for, weather notes, complaints about the food, drawings of shipmates. Each contributor gets a short life and a few spreads of the real pages. Companion to his explorer and writer sketchbook volumes, and the most beautiful of the three.
The Sea Journal: Seafarers’ Sketchbooks