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Rockwell Kent is one of America's most famous graphic artists. He
was also an avid traveler. Kent was especially fascinated by remote
Arctic lands and often stayed for extended periods of time to
paint, write, and become acquainted with the local inhabitants.
Between 1918 and 1935, he wrote and illustrated several popular
books about his travels. Voyaging, originally published in 1924, is
the engaging story of Kent's sailing voyage to Tierra del Fuego.
Kent is a charming writer and keen observer of both the land and
its people. The book is beautifully and generously illustrated with
Kent's distinctive woodcuts.
The first edition was published to great critical acclaim. New
Republic wrote, "the land lives. A land where roses are as big as
sun-flowers, where gales gnaw against bleak cliffs . . . At the end
of the earth, there is the paradox of the dwarf and the giant." The
Nation said, "Kent has caught the wild beauty of this ominous
region -- iron crags ringed with the froth of blown surf,
wind-tortured trees, distant peaks incrusted with dazzling snow;
but out of the very heart of this bewildering beauty emanates a
sense of unseen presences appallingly, implacably hostile to man."
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N by E (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
Rockwell Kent; Contributions by Edward Hoagland
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R584
R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
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When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent
first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of
a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged
shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. Little
wonder, for readers are immediately drawn to Kent's vivid
descriptions of the experience; we share "the feeling of wind and
wet and cold, of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over
as the wind gusts hit," and the sound "of wind in the shrouds, of
hard spray flung on a drum-tight canvas, of rushing water at the
scuppers, of the gale shearing a tormented sea."
When the ship sinks in a storm-swept fjord within 50 miles of its
destination, the story turns to the stranding and subsequent rescue
of the three-man crew, salvage of the vessel, and life among native
Greenlanders. Magnificently illustrated by Kent's wood-block prints
and narrated in his poetic and highly entertaining style, this tale
of the perils of killer nor'easters, treacherous icebergs, and
impenetrable fog -- and the joys of sperm whales breaching or dawn
unmasking a longed-for landfall -- is a rare treat for old salts
and landlubbers alike.
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Candy (Paperback)
Lillie McMakin Alexander; Rockwell Kent
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R629
Discovery Miles 6 290
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This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
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Candy (Hardcover)
Lillie McMakin Alexander; Rockwell Kent
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R900
Discovery Miles 9 000
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N by E (Paperback)
Rockwell Kent
bundle available
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R795
Discovery Miles 7 950
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This early work by Rockwell Kent was originally published in 1930
and we are now republishing it. 'N by E' tells the story of an
actual voyage to Greenland in a small boat; of a shipwreck there
and of what, if anything, happened afterwards.
This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
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