Setting Sail: Recording Life in the Wooden World | Exhibit

UC San Diego Library will host the exhibit Setting Sail: Recording Life in the Wooden World this September in Geisel Library. Visitors can view logbooks and diaries created by sailors and officers on board the wooden ships. Each volume is a unique manuscript, compiling multiple aspects of life at sea. Some reflect whaling voyages, with small images of a whale for each successful catch, while others record encounters with native peoples or the death of a comrade at sea, an occurrence often outlined in black. Location at sea and the weather were common themes. All manuscripts will be drawn from the Library’s Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages.

Contact:
Lynda Claassen
speccoll@ucsd.edu

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