{"id":20829,"date":"2021-09-01T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20829"},"modified":"2021-09-01T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:33:08","slug":"rockwell-kents-voyaging-southward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/09\/01\/rockwell-kents-voyaging-southward\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockwell Kent&#8217;s Voyaging Southward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent01.jpg\" alt=\"kent01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rockwell Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/09\/rockwell-kents-moby-dick\/\">1930 edition of <em>Moby Dick<\/em><\/a> is one of those rare illustrated books where the drawings match the text so well that&#8217;s it hard to imagine it being improved upon. Kent&#8217;s familiarity with ships and shipboard life is explained in part by <em>Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan<\/em>, his memoir of a journey to Tierra del Fuego in 1922. As with <em>Moby Dick<\/em>, the book is illustrated throughout with vignettes as well as larger pieces, all of them in Kent&#8217;s customary pen-and-ink style. There are over 90 illustrations in all, plus maps. See the rest of them <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/voyagingsouthwar0000kent\/page\/n7\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent02.jpg\" alt=\"kent02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent03.jpg\" alt=\"kent03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent04.jpg\" alt=\"kent04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent05.jpg\" alt=\"kent05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent06.jpg\" alt=\"kent06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent07.jpg\" alt=\"kent07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent08.jpg\" alt=\"kent08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent09.jpg\" alt=\"kent09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent10.jpg\" alt=\"kent10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent11.jpg\" alt=\"kent11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent12.jpg\" alt=\"kent12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent13.jpg\" alt=\"kent13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent14.jpg\" alt=\"kent14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent15.jpg\" alt=\"kent15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent16.jpg\" alt=\"kent16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kent17.jpg\" alt=\"kent17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/09\/rockwell-kents-moby-dick\/\">Rockwell Kent\u2019s Moby Dick<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockwell Kent&#8217;s 1930 edition of Moby Dick is one of those rare illustrated books where the drawings match the text so well that&#8217;s it hard to imagine it being improved upon. Kent&#8217;s familiarity with ships and shipboard life is explained in part by Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan, his memoir of a journey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/09\/01\/rockwell-kents-voyaging-southward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rockwell Kent&#8217;s Voyaging Southward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Rockwell Kent's Voyaging Southward","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42,48],"tags":[601,503],"class_list":["post-20829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-moby-dick","tag-rockwell-kent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5pX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}