Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska

by Joe Upton

Overview

Writer and fisherman Joe Upton recounts the riveting stories of explorers of the past and seafarers of the present in JOURNEYS THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE. His chronicle offers events vivid in their telling: the journey of widow  Muriel Blanchet, who solo navigated a small vessel in the 1930s with her five children; the failed meeting of explorers Alexander Mackenzie and George Vancouver in 1793; countless sinkings; and tales from the author's own experiences plying this legendary waterway.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882407401
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	03/01/2008
Series:	Caribou Classics
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Upton has written about and naviagated the fishing grounds of New England, British Columbia, and Alaska.

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Journeys Through the Inside Passage

Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska

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By Joe Upton

Alaska Northwest Books

Copyright © 2008 Joe Upton
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780882407401

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"God's Pocket. The harbor at God's Pocket: in more sheltered waters, mariners wouldn't give such a small and relatively open cove a secod look when seeking an anchorage. A surge comes in from any well in the Sound, and there isn't room for but a handful of boats. One sleeps uneasily; even though the wind doesn't reach down on the cove, it rushes throg the trees above.  Yet what shelter it offers lies at the very edge of Queen Charlotte Sound. By lying there, a northbound vessel may make a 3:00 or 4:00 A.M. start and perhaps get across the open waters tothe north before the winds starts to blow. Likewise, southbound travelers, arriving here at dark after a difficult passage, find the limited shelter infinitely better than what they came from."  Page 66

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Table of Contents

Page 9, Beginnings; Ch 1: Page 17, The South End; Ch 2: Page 45, The Wilderness Begins; Ch 3: Page 69, The Northern Canyons; Ch 4: Page 99, The Windy Border Country; Ch 5: Page 123, Islands Without Number; Ch 6: Page 153, Where History Lurks; Acknowledgements, Page 177; Bibliography, 179; Index, Page 181.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Alternately exhilarating and contemplative....Upton's approach underscores the powerful effect of the sea and land on those who choose to wrestle with them."  —- Booklist

"Joe Upton fans, and their number is legion, will be delighted that he's back writing about this first love, that wonderful, dangerous, beautiful, lovely country known as Southeast Alaska." —-Nor' westing

"Those who traverse Alaska's maritime world will find Upton exciting and authentic. And armchair literary voyagers like myself will place the book high on the list of favorite maritime reading...A book that should never be allowed to go out o print."  —-Anchorage Daily News

Editorial Reviews

"Alternately exhilarating and contemplative....Upton's approach underscores the powerful effect of the sea and land on those who choose to wrestle with them."  — Booklist

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