After Icebergs with a Painter (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Summer Voyage to Labrador and Around NewfoundlandBy Louis Legrand Noble
Length7h 29m
About this audiobook
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 nineteenth-century American tradition of nature writing and picturesque travel, while also illuminating the visual culture that shaped Church's great iceberg paintings. Noble, an Episcopal clergyman, poet, and man of letters, was closely associated with Church and wrote with the sensibility of someone trained to see nature as both material fact and spiritual revelation. His religious imagination, literary education, and intimacy with artistic circles enabled him to interpret the voyage not merely as adventure, but as an encounter with grandeur, danger, and divine design. This book is recommended to readers interested in American Romanticism, art history, Arctic exploration, and the language of the sublime. It offers a rare literary companion to nineteenth-century painting, preserving the experience behind the canvas with intelligence, reverence, and dramatic force.
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Audiobook details
GenreTravel
Length7 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1South (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XXIV.
2ILLUSTRATIONS.
27CHAPTER XXV.
3CHAPTER I.
28CHAPTER XXVI.
4CHAPTER II.
29CHAPTER XXVII.
5CHAPTER III.
30CHAPTER XXVIII.
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6CHAPTER IV.
31CHAPTER XXIX.
7CHAPTER V.
32CHAPTER XXX.
8CHAPTER VI.
33CHAPTER XXXI.
9CHAPTER VII.
34CHAPTER XXXII.
10CHAPTER VIII.
35CHAPTER XXXIII.
11CHAPTER IX.
36CHAPTER XXXIV.
12CHAPTER X.
37CHAPTER XXXV.
13CHAPTER XI.
38CHAPTER XXXVI.
14CHAPTER XII.
39CHAPTER XXXVII.
15CHAPTER XIII.
40CHAPTER XXXVIII.
16CHAPTER XIV.
41CHAPTER XXXIX.
17CHAPTER XV.
42CHAPTER XL.
18CHAPTER XVI.
43CHAPTER XLI.
19CHAPTER XVII.
44CHAPTER XLII.
20CHAPTER XVIII.
45CHAPTER XLIII.
21CHAPTER XIX.
46CHAPTER XLIV.
22CHAPTER XX.
47CHAPTER XLV.
23CHAPTER XXI.
48CHAPTER XLVI.
24CHAPTER XXII.
49CHAPTER XLVII.
25CHAPTER XXIII.
50CHAPTER XLVIII.
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