After Icebergs with a Painter (Annotated)

After Icebergs with a Painter is Louis Legrand Noble's vivid account of a northern voyage undertaken with the celebrated landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church in search of the Arctic sublime. Part travel narrative, part aesthetic meditation, the book records the spectacle of icebergs, sea, weather, and peril with a prose style at once ornate, devotional, and observant. It belongs to the nineteen...