Sailing With Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time - Softcover

McKinney, Sam

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9781894898126: Sailing With Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time

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ISBN 10: 1894898125 ISBN 13: 9781894898126

Publisher: Touchwood Ed, 2010

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Could I have been one of them?" That was what Sam McKinney wondered as he retraced, alone, the explorations of Captain George Vancouver and his men from Puget Sound to Queen Charlotte Sound. In the 1790s, they rowed for long hours day after day, camping on rocky beaches in all weathers and charting the intricate coastline for the first time. Two hundred years later, McKinney followed them in his 25-foot sailboat, anchoring where they did, meeting the same winds and waves, and sharing "the link of vulnerability that is the ever-present condition of all people who go to sea." Describing the two voyages, McKinney offers insightful comparisons of what sailors saw and experienced, in the 18th century and today, around the Inland Sea. At the end of his trip he, like Vancouver, claimed the area he had explored, "not by deed of ownership but out of love for the place, its staggering beauty . [and] the memories of the people and cultures who have found homes along its shores.

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About the Author:

Sam McKinney, journalist, teacher of outward-bound programs and builder of small boats, is the author of Bligh! The Whole Story of the Mutiny Aboard H.M.S. Bounty, and Reach of Tide, Ring of History.

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