Books The DeWire Guide to
Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast is a field guide for the traveler and armchair tourist alike, and gives visiting hours and driving directions for 64 lighthouses from San Diego to the San Juans. However, this is not just a travelers’ guide. DeWire spins true tales of hardship of stoic men—and women—keeping the watch, sometimes at dire cost. Here are the lightkeepers’ stories of earthquakes and fog, of storms and shipwrecks, and of ghosts and loneliness. Here too, are the stories of those who
With information on ancient native
settlements, hidden campsites and everything in between, Boat Camping Haida Gwaii, A Small-Vessel Guide by Neil Frazer, offers a fascinating and comprehensive marine guide to the wild beauty of the Queen Charlotte Islands for kayakers and other small vessel operators. The book has a wide range of informative maps and numerous photographs of the Queen Charlotte coast, offering meticulously field- tested paddling and boating routes to the islands’ majestic attractions.
The Minimum Boat by Sam
Llewellyn, is a collection of humorous, tongue-in-cheek diatribes on subjects as diverse as anchoring, fishing, alcohol and marine sanitation, Sam Llewellyn joyfully turns the clock back to a time of simple pleasures on the water. Shunning in-mast furling systems, passionately against the replacement of shrimping nets with walk-in freezers and perplexed by sailors who spend more time fixing the hot water system then getting their hands on the tiller, Sam seeks to realign today’s
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have fought to preserve these noble beacons now serving as museums and as B&Bs, all the while continuing their charge of guiding ships at sea. Yesterday’s hardy live-in lightkeepers may have been replaced by automation, but their legacy of trust and hardship lives on in the chronicles of The DeWire Guide to Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast. The DeWire Guide to
Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast, published by Paradise Cay Publications, Inc.,
www.paracay.com. $19.95
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Detailed descriptions are given of each campsite and special appendices are provided with helpful hints on bear safety, tides and currents. The book also contains invaluable information about the history and culture of the Haida, the indigenous people of the Queen Charlotte Islands. This guide’s comprehensive informat ion wi l l be valuable to everyone interested in exploring this unique area.
Frazer, published by Harbour Publishing,
www.harbourpublishing.com. $29.95
Boat Camping Haida Gwaii, by Neil .
seafaring priorities. Drawn from the hugely popular
column in Practical Boat Owner and illustrated with cartoons by the inimitable Mike Peyton, these sage and loony meditations will appeal to anyone who has ever balked at fixing the head, but believes that there is “nothing, simply nothing, half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.” The Minimum Boat by
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Sam Llewellyn and with cartoons by Mike Peyton, published by Sheridan House, .
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