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No. 0076 Anthology · No fixed address

Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure

Huw Lewis-Jones

Before cameras, if you wanted to bring back what you saw, you drew it. Lewis-Jones and Herbert — he’s a polar guide and historian, she’s the daughter of the explorer Wally Herbert — pulled together seventy sketchbooks kept in the…

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No. 0069 History · No fixed address

The History of Surfing

Matt Warshaw

If sports could wish, every sport wishes it could be treated with the depth, breadth, love, and wit that Matt Warshaw has given surfing. The former editor of Surfer magazine, Warshaw is the preeminent chronicler of surfing history, and no…

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The History of Surfing
No. 0077 Anthology · No fixed address

The Sea Journal: Seafarers’ Sketchbooks

Huw Lewis-Jones

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…

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