Books The Sacrament of Sail: Finding Our


Way, by Matts & Jeanine Djos, is about the magic of sail, the remarkable kaleidoscope of change that Jeanine and I have experienced during the past half century, and what it means to be fiercely independent. We have selected some of the most most memorable, comic, and difficult of those experiences, whether long ago when we were first married or during last quarter century when we explored the Pacific Northwest, Canada, southern California, Mexico, and the Great Southwest. Each chapter carries you a little further down the years, but the adventures and misadventures


After assignments as a Canadian


diplomat in Mexico, Colombia, Sudan, and South Africa, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27-foot sailboat, from Cape Town across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters of the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, and the Strait of Magellan. Coghlan recalls earlier adventures in Patagonia during the late seventies when he and his wife explored the region over three


Last Voyage First, by Joseph Halsted,


tells the tale of a well found yacht totally vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle. The last yacht Anne Marie, a modern ketch outfitted for undersea archaeology, became overtaken by a hurricane somewhere west of Bermuda. The owner, his twenty-two year old daughter and her fiancé were all presumed lost at sea. Totally lost they were not. Connie Shaw was washed overboard in the storm; rescued not by the US Navy, but by a British Navy Frigate in the year 1777. This first voyage of the last Anne Marie commenced with a frantic search of empty ocean for lost Connie, followed by the yacht’s return to her home port, not today but in 1777, the pivotal year


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are equally vivid, every anchorage and landfall left an indelible imprint, and the challenge of self-sufficiency was always rigorous. Most of all, however, this book is about the mystique of sail, our love of freedom, and the sheer joy of getting out on the water, no matter what the venue. So come along, all ye vagabonds, dreamers, and gypsies, and share our adventure. The distant horizon lies beyond


the sunset, the lights begin to twinkle from afar, and the evening star shines high to the west. The Sacrament of Sail: Finding , www.amazon.com


Our Way, $15.95


successive summers. Now, as they negotiate the labyrinth of channels and inlets around snow-covered Fireland, he reflects on the voyages of past explorers: Magellan, Cook, Darwin, Slocum, and others. Sailing enthusiasts and readers of true adventures will want to add Coghlan’s world-wise narrative to their libraries. Winter in Fireland, , published by The


$32.50 University of Alberts Press, www.uap.ualberta.ca


of the American Revolutionary War. While Connie Shaw barely managed a harrowing escape from captivity, becoming chased by an implacable enemy through the pages of this action- filled novel, her father and fiancé were drafted by Washington’s Secret Service and effected three significant changes in the course of the history of that War, to now read as we know it; not as it should logically have been. Had it not been for this gallant and secretive crew it’s likely that the United States of America would have become the United Colonies of Brittan, and would have been singing “Hail to the Queen” since.


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