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Just wanted to share the chapter (4 pages) about Cel Nav
from the book of Rockwell Kent, "N by E":
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/Navigation/kent-e.pdf

I am not sure how well he is known nowadays in this country.
He was an artist, a painter, most famous for his book illustrations, his
most
famous work is illustrated Moby Dick. Here is a sample:

http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/Navigation/kent.jpg
His book N by E is an account of travel in a 33 ft sloop "Direction"
to Greenland (where they shipwrecked) in 1929.

When I was 12, my father bought me this book, in Russian translation,
with Kent's illustrations. So this was the first picture of a real
sextant I've seen:-) Next summer we traveled on a ship in the White and
Barentz sea, and I could see with my own eyes, that paintings of Kent
of Northers sunsets over the sea are not his phantasies:-)
Later I also had a Russian translation of Moby Dick with his
illustrations.

Soviet museums have a lot of Kent's painting, more than American ones:
as many other left-wing intellectuals he was a
"friend of Soviet Union", and during the McCarty era
he donated to Soviet museums 200 of his paintings...

Alex.

   

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