"The monotony of a logbook."

In a chapter titled Characteristics of Logbooks, Stewart C. Sherman describes the typical logbook this way.

Typical day by day entries [in a logbook] provide pretty dull reading and only occasionally is the dullness relieved by something eventful. The monotony of a logbook simply reflects the monotony with which one day followed another. Whaleman faced hardship and danger so often that even the logbook entries describing them were casual and off-handed.

The Voice of the Whaleman, With an Account of the Nicholson Whaling Collecton, Stewart C. Sherman, 1965, Providence Public Library, Providence RI.

The monotony of a logbook simply reflects the monotony with which one day followed another.

Although this can surely be true what is also true is the excitement you will likely get from the historical nuggets you will find in the next passage or the next day's logbook entry. So please...read on...read on.