Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
The Logbook of David Russell
A carefully opened-up record of a master mariner’s seventeen years at sea, tracing 14 ships, 808 logbook entries, 167 ports, and 912,444 nautical miles.
Why it surfacedThis is personal history with extraordinary geographic reach: the site follows David Russell from his first ship out of Middlesbrough in 1953 through voyages across the Atlantic, Pacific, canals, capes, and Cold War-era China. Its reconstructed routes are clearly identified as editorial work rather than Russell’s own reckoning, giving the project both human texture and archival discipline.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.