The Inside Passage And Coastal Alaska

Download or read book Journeys Through the Inside Passage written by Joe Upton and published by Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.