Euterpe: Diaries, letters and logs of the "Star of India" as a British emigrant ship

by Craig Arnold (Editor)

The author has contacted sources around the world in a two-year quest for documents that led to this book. Logs and other accounts of British voyages to New Zealand were unearthed by this search. Selected portions of this material are presented in the book. This is the first thorough look at life in an emigrant sailing ship. Emigrants' diaries and ships logs give the reader a true taste of seafaring under sail. A balance is struck between the personal views of emigrants and the official reports of the ship's officers. The brutal hardships and brief joys of the emigrants, the details of sailing the ship, the constant battle against the great dark sea- are all here, told in the words of those who were on board.

233 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1988

About the author

Craig Arnold was a professor at the University of Wyoming. He cited Ani DiFranco as a muse and claimed he was more interested in art made in moments of happiness than art made to be beautiful. On April 26, 2009 Craig Arnold went missing on the island of Kuchino-erabu. He was in Japan to work on a lyric book about volcanoes. May 8, 2009 a search and rescue team concluded he suffered a leg injury and fell to his death on a steep cliff. According to his partner of six years, Rebecca Lindenberg, "he did not wait or wonder or suffer."

His first collection, Shells won the Yale Younger Poets selection. His follow-up, Made Flesh was critically acclaimed.