SEA JOURNAL: SEAFARERS SKETCHBOOKS (HB)

In this remarkable gathering of private journals, log books, letters and diaries, we meet officers and ordinary sailors, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers. Often still bearing the traces of their nautical past, the intriguing and enchanting sketches and drawings brilliantly capture encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils. A handful of contemporary mariners also provide their thoughts on how art remains integral to their voyaging lives.