Drawings of ships decorate the pages of a historic whaling logbook. Courtesy of Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution “One of the most important pillars in understanding how ...

"It was the one document that they would try to save if ever the ship ... catch a whale… Multiple times a day, they are recording the weather," Walker explains. Between the ink and drawings ...

A given whaling ship’s crew might be made up of white ... out of Newburyport, features scale drawings of the coastlines and bird’s-eye views of islands off the South American coastline.