The Adventures of Kami and Suz This children’s book is adapted from my adventure memoir: Inside: One Woman’s Journey Through the Inside Passage (Epicenter Press). I’d been kayaking long distances for many years before I decided to paddle the Inside
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Susan Marie Conrad – Wildly Inside
A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage Wildly Inside transports you through the Inside Passage — a visual journey where you’ll smell the muskiness of a whale’s breath, hear the thunderous waves of a wide-awake ocean, feel the reverberations of
Continue readingJon van Tamelen – Ancestor
A Carriacou Sloop’s Voyage to Vancouver Ancestor is the story of a Carriacou sloop, an engineless, locally-built sailing vessel purchased and refit by the author while living and sailing in the vicinity of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada
Continue readingPeter Freeman – Cape Horn Birthday
Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation Cape Horn Birthday documents the extraordinary non-stop round-the-world journey of a lone sailor and his thirty-two-foot sloop. GPS did not exist when Peter Freeman set sail from Victoria, British Columbia, in 1984. Peter navigated the old-fashioned
Continue readingAlex Zimmerman – Becoming Coastal
25 Years of Exploration and Discovery of the British Columbia Coast by Paddle, Oar and Sail In this collection of narratives Victoria technologist, environmentalist and writer Alex Zimmerman tells stories not only of self-propelled travel and adventure but also of
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