Logbook for Grace Author:Robert Cushman Murphy Logbook for grace was first published in 1947 and received lavish praise from reviewers and then sunk out of sight. "A book to set on the shelf beside "Moby Dick" and "Two Years Before the Mast," said one review; another called it a book to "live forever in the solid and lasting literature of a civilization." Logbook is the fascinating chronicle... more », in diary form, of a voyage of one of the last Yankee whaleships in the twilight days of sail. More than that, it is an adventure story, a travelogue, a naturalist's notebook and a charming love story all rolled into one - written, it must be added, by a man whose profession is not writing, although he has written scientific works.« less