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Miller, Gordon, 1932-
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Sailing ships -- Pictorial works.
Sailing ships -- History.
Sea in art.
Pacific Ocean -- Discovery and exploration.
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Miller, Gordon, 1932-
Sailing ships -- Pictorial works.
Sailing ships -- History.
Sea in art.
Pacific Ocean -- Discovery and exploration.
MARC Display
Pacific
voyages
: the
story
of
sail
in the
great
ocean
/ Gordon Miller.
by
Miller, Gordon, 1932-
Douglas & McIntyre, 2023.
Call #:
990.023 M648p
Subjects
Sailing ships -- Pictorial works.
Sailing ships -- History.
Sea in art.
Pacific
Ocean
-- Discovery and exploration.
ISBN:
9781771623476 (hc.)
Description:
xi, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"“Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller’s] paintings of ships under
sail
, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms and in cities are luminous.”—Pacific Yachting"--Back cover.
"In Western myths and imagination, the
Pacific
is the home of soft, warm, gentle trade winds, idyllic island lagoons and waving palms--the exotic earthly paradise of escapists, adventurers and romantics. Until James Cook showed otherwise, eighteenth-century Europeans also believed this
ocean
to contain a
great
southern continent of untold riches and beauty. The islands of the South
Pacific
can indeed be enchanting, their charm often exceeding expectations, but as European mariners realized when they first arrived here in the sixteenth century, the
Pacific
Ocean
is also a region of ferocious tropical cyclones, treacherous, reef-littered atolls, wearying doldrums and mind-numbing distances. This book is maritime artist and historian Gordon Miller's tribute to the humble little ships that first ventured across the
great
Pacific
, and the brave sailors that manned them. It is a brief, selective and condensed
story
of the charting, exploitation and occupation of the
Pacific
Ocean
, mostly in small, wooden ships, with only wind and human muscle for power. These maritime pioneers united North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, the entire
Pacific
Ocean
, all the coasts that surround it, and all the islands within. Even confined to the last four centuries of oceangoing
sail
, this is a large and complex story--a
story
brought to life by Miller's carefully researched text and masterfully rendered maritime paintings."--From publisher.
Gordon Miller is a distinguished maritime artist and illustrator. In his youth he worked as a seaman, sailing the West Coast from Alaska to Seattle. Later, he was chief designer for both the Vancouver Maritime Museum and Vancouver Museum. Since 1977, he has freelanced with commissions from institutions such as the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Parks Canada, the National Film Board and the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa. His work has been used by many publishers, including Canadian Geographic and National Geographic. His paintings appear in collections in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. He lives in Vancouver, BC.
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990.023 M648p
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Nov 01, 2024
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Adult Nonfiction
990.023 M648p
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