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No. 0054 Anthology · No fixed address

Archipelago An Atlas of Imagined Islands

Huw Lewis-Jones

Huw Lewis-Jones put this together for the 300th birthday of Robinson Crusoe. The setup is simple: He handed a bunch of illustrators from all over the world the same assignment Defoe gave himself — you washed up somewhere, now draw…

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Archipelago An Atlas of Imagined Islands
No. 0087 Art · No fixed address

Drawn: The Art of Ascent

Jeremy Collins

Collins was shivering in a cave under Fitz Roy in Patagonia when he got the idea: Go out from home in each of the four directions, climb something new, and fill sketchbooks doing it. He told his friend and mentor…

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Drawn: The Art of Ascent
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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Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
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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The Sea Journal: Seafarers’ Sketchbooks