NAJ 21 (1986). A5 book, 20 pp., 19 illustrations

A poetic guide to Navigation, an emblematic log book for the Voyage of Life!

The poetry is composed through the two parallel sets of drawings by Howard Eaglestone (The Art of Navigation) and Ian Gardner (Ailsa Craig, The Night Sail, plus Cover), which are keyed to the sequence of philosophical citations, selected by Howard Eaglestone

In the concluding poem, Sea States by Patrick Eyres, the Beaufort Scale becomes the midwife to the birth of Venus (as in Botticelli’s painting)

The concluding poem by Patrick Eyres (Sea States) combines the Beaufort Scale with the Birth of Venus

See also the set of cards by Howard Eaglestone, The Art of Navigation