Book review: A new edition of Louis Legrand Noble's “After Icebergs with a Painter,' an account of a 19th century sea voyage, provides a window into the era’s fascination with the Arctic.
“After Icebergs with a Painter: A Summer Voyage to Labrador and Around Newfoundland,” by Louis Legrand Noble By Louis Legrand Noble; Black Dome Press, 2022; 235 pages; $19.95.
A map early in the book shows the route the two men took, mostly on a hired schooner — from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Cape Breton Island, then out across the Atlantic to the East Coast of Newfoundland, up to Labrador, then back down the west coast of Newfoundland past the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This was all what they called “British America,” and the people they met along the way were settler Brits, Scots and Irish, along with Indigenous.
For 1859, Church and Noble were surprisingly accurate in their scientific understandings. They knew that the icebergs came from Greenland, having broken off the bottoms of moving glaciers and been driven west by wind and currents. Noble learned from speaking with “ignorant” people in Labrador that most knew nothing of glaciers and believed that icebergs “were merely the accumulations of loose ice, snow and frozen spray.
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