Download or read book Gulf Islands Vancouver Island Victoria Sooke to Nanaimo written by Anne Yeadon-Jones and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne and Lauren Yeadon-Jones have spent thousands of hours cruising British Columbia's coast in their yacht Dreamspeaker. Their cruising guides feature informative, hand-drawn shoreline plans of marinas and small boat anchorages. Numerous color photographs show each area in all its splendor. With this book explore the inside coast of Vancouver Island from Victoria to Nanaimo with extensive coverage of charming Gulf Islands.
Download or read book Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide written by Anne Yeadon-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly updated new edition is a must-have for boaters visiting beautiful Desolation Sound.
Download or read book Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide Series The San Juan Islands written by Anne Yeadon-Jones and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated in 2016! Just south of Vancouver in Washington State lies a distinctive island triangle known locally as the San Juans. This enchanting cluster of islands offers boaters the pleasure of cruising in safe and protected waters while enjoying the diversity and individual personality of each island. The allure of the San Juans lies in the short distances between destinations, the ease of provisioning, the wellmaintained marinas and the friendly charm of the villages and towns, beautiful beaches, lakes, shaded forest walks and intriguing historic sites.
Download or read book Go Do Some Great Thing written by Kilian Crawford and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him to become a successful merchant in San Francisco, and then to seek a more just society in the new colony of Vancouver Island, where he was to become a prominent citizen and elected official. Gibbs joined a movement of Black American emigrants fleeing the increasingly oppressive and anti-Black Californian legal system in 1858. They hoped to establish themselves in a new country where they would have full access to the rights of citizenship and would be free to seek success and stability. Some six hundred Black Californians made the trip to Victoria in the midst of the Fraser River Gold Rush, but their hopes of finding a welcoming new home were ultimately disappointed. They were to encounter social segregation, disenfranchisement, limited employment opportunities and rampant discrimination. But in spite of the opposition and racism they faced, these pioneers played a pivotal role in the emerging province, establishing an all-Black militia unit to protect against American invasion, casting deciding votes in the 1860 election and helping to build the province as teachers, miners, artisans, entrepreneurs and merchants. Crawford Kilian brings this vibrant period of British Columbia’s history to life, evoking the chaos and opportunity of Victoria’s gold rush boom and describing the fascinating lives of prominent Black pioneers and trailblazers, from Sylvia Stark and Saltspring Island’s notable Stark family to lifeguard and special constable Joe Fortes, who taught a generation of Vancouverites to swim. Since its original publication in 1978, Go Do Some Great Thing has remained foundational reading on the history of Black pioneers in BC. Updated and with a new foreword by Adam Rudder, the third edition of this under-told story describes the hardships and triumphs of BC’s first Black citizens and their legacy in the province today. Partial proceeds from each copy sold will be donated to the Hogan's Alley Society.
Download or read book Best Anchorages of the Inside Passage written by Anne Vipond and published by [Delta, B.C.] : Ocean Cruise Guides. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest cruising grounds in the world, the Inside Passage is a boater's paradise with hundreds of pristine islands, inlets, and anchorages. Written by former "Pacific Yachting" columnist Vipond and her husband, this resource profiles more than 200 anchorages and destinations. 450 color photos.
Download or read book Around the World in a Dugout Canoe written by John M. MacFarlane and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage—and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment—is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.
Download or read book Adventures in Solitude written by Grant Lawrence and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel “Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim “Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new chapter to the saga of this storied piece of BC coastline. Young Grant’s father bought a piece of land next to the park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters. In those years Desolation Sound was a place where going to the neighbours’ potluck meant being met with hugs from portly naked hippies and where Russell the Hermit’s school of life (boating, fishing, and rock ’n’ roll) was Grant’s personal Enlightenment—an influence that would take him away from the coast to a life of music and journalism and eventually back again. With rock band buddies and a few cases of beer in tow, an older, cooler Grant returns to regale us with tales of “going bush,” the tempting dilemma of finding an unguarded grow-op, and his awkward struggle to convince a couple of visiting kayakers that he’s a legit CBC radio host while sporting a wild beard and body wounds and gesticulating with a machete. With plenty of laugh-out-loud humour and inspired reverence, Adventures in Solitude delights us with the unique history of a place and the growth of a young man amidst the magic of Desolation Sound.
Download or read book The West Coast of Vancouver Island written by Anne Yeadon-Jones and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dreamspeaker cruising companions offer charts, tips and data that enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage. The guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. Intended to complement official hydrographic charts, the Dreamspeaker Cruising Guides accurately pinpoint both popular and little-known highlights in British Columbia and Pacific Northwest coastal waters that every sailor, power-boater or kayaker should know. Written in the personal style of a boater's logbook, these guides provide vital information about featured locations, plus notes on recreational activities for adults and children. Here you will find the best spots along the west coast of Vancouver Island from Cape Scott to Sooke including Bull Harbour, the Bunsby Islands and Barclay Sound, with full-colour scenic photographs that showcase the splendour of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Download or read book 2022 Waggoner Cruising Guide Spiral Bound written by Leonard Landon and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Waggoner Cruising Guide is often called the Bible for Northwest Cruising. Each year it is extensively updated to provide the latest information covering each cruising area along with detailed listings of moorage and fuel facilities. There is text on anchorages, Local Knowledge, the flavor of each area, some history, and list on things to see and do. Lots of maps and photos, too
Download or read book Raincoast Chronicles First Five written by Howard White and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that has become a west coast institution - articles, stories, poems, drawings covering every imaginable aspect of northwest history and folklore. The first five issues of "Raincoast Chronicles," dating back to 1972. Winner of the first Eaton's British Columbia Book Award, this is the innovative institution at the heart of BC regional publishing. Northwest history and folklore, unromanticized, in a unique magazine format, blending reminiscences, articles, drawings, photos. . . "The best source book available on Canada's west coast." -"Books in Canada" "Utterly absorbing. . . until "Raincoast Chronicles" came along the fabulous west coast rum-runners and ghost logging camps went unrecalled save in the dimming memories of oldtimers." -"Maclean's" "The magazine is a thoroughly professional production in terms of design, layout and graphics, and the quality of the writing is just as impressive." -"Quill and Quire" ""Raincoast Chronicles" reveals western identity. . . as dense as the undergrowth in the rainforest, and as richly alive." -"CBC Radio" "Still my favourite magazine" -Lorne Parton
Download or read book Food Plants of Interior First Peoples written by Nancy J. Turner and published by Royal BC Museum Handbooks. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Turner describes more than 150 plants traditionally harvested and eaten by First Peoples east of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia and northern Washington. Each description includes information on where to find the plant and a discussion on traditional methods of harvesting and preparation.
Download or read book The Sea Among Us written by Richard James Beamish and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strait of Georgia is a one of the world's great inland seas, a 6,900 sq km body of water lying between the British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island. Rich in history, teeming with wildlife and marine traffic, it is essential to British Columbians for food, jobs, travel and recreation. The sheltered waters of the strait are home to Canada's largest seaport and over two-thirds of the province's population. The Sea Among Us is the first book to present a comprehensive study of the Strait of Georgia in all its aspects with chapters on geology, First Nations, history, oceanography, fish, birds, mammals,invertebrates and plants. Covering everything from tsunami modelling to First Nations history to barnacle reproduction, the book is a sweeping overview of the waterway. It describes how fjords formed, what the seafloor is made of, and why coastal BC is so prone to earthquakes; it advises on which jellyfish sting, how to tell the difference between Dall's and harbour porpoises, and where to find whales; and it addresses how climate change and human impacts could affect the strait, noting that though marine ecosystems are tough and adaptable, there are limits to this resiliency. As editor Dr. Richard Beamish says, "It is the function of this book to inform British Columbians about the Strait of Georgia. All authors hope that the readers will use the information to ask questions about how the Strait of Georgia is coping with change and how they can provide more of the information that is needed to maintain a healthy Strait of Georgia." Informative, descriptive, cautionary and entertaining, The Sea Among Us is illustrated with attractive colour photographs, figures and drawings. It fills a place on the shelf of essential BC reference books beside The Encyclopedia of British Columbia and Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest.
Download or read book Dreamspeaker written by Anne Cameron and published by New York : Avon. This book was released on 1980 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Full Moon Flood Tide written by Bill Proctor and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful addition to the library of coastal sailors, or armchair travellers and historians... -Royal City Record
Download or read book Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide Series written by Anne Yeadon-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Local knowledge is pure gold for the cruising boater who is venturing into unfamiliar waters--or exploring familiar waters anew. Knowing what to expect takes some of the uncertainty and anxiety out of breaking new ground, and adds immeasurably to the safety and enjoyment of discovering new destinations." --Duart Snow, former editor, "Pacific Yachting" A short cruise north from British Columbia's Gulf Islands lies an area of spectacular natural beauty. Desolation Sound and the nearby Discovery Islands offer a seductive maze of interconnecting waterways which encompass large tracts of accessible wilderness that entice boaters and kayakers to visit each year. Designed to complement official Hydrographic charts, Dreamspeaker Cruising Guides feature over 100 nautically accurate and informative hand-drawn charts of marinas and sheltered anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded one-boat nooks and pristine marine parks. Colour photographs illustrate safe approaches and portray the area's scenic splendour while the easy-to-follow text provides local knowledge about each location, plus tips to enhance your enjoyment--where to find the best spots to anchor, share a romantic sunset, enjoy a fine alfresco picnic, hike to a freshwater lake or locate a welcome hot shower.
Download or read book Dream Cruising Destinations written by Vanessa Bird and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most yachtsmen dream about cruising to an exotic destination; this is the book that will turn dreamers into planners. 24 classic cruises are fully mapped, measured and costed, showing how they are perfectly possible whatever your skill level. From weekend cruises around the British Isles to a voyage to Antarctica, and from Greek island cruises to an escape to the Virgin Islands, this book explores where to go, why, how to get there and what to expect en route. The book breaks down each cruise into important considerations, such as what type of boat is needed, what level of skill or qualifications are required, whether it is a suitable journey to undertake with a young family, what possible dangers might influence any decision (from extreme weather to the threat of piracy), and most obviously, cost. Covering popular, exotic cruising destinations such as Thailand and the Virgin Islands, as well as unexpected, almost secret routes along the US Intracoastal Waterway and French canals, as well as proper adventures (including both Atlantic and Pacific crossings), this inspirational may be the starting point for the voyage of a lifetime.
Download or read book World Cruising Destinations written by Jimmy Cornell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What Jimmy Cornell doesn't know about cruising isn't worth knowing' - Yachting World One of the most influential cruising yachtsmen writing today, Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000 miles on all the oceans of the world, including three circumnavigations and voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic. His successful guide to sailing around the world, World Cruising Routes, has helped many aspirational voyagers turn their dreams into reality and follow in his footsteps. Here in its extensively revised edition is its partner, covering all the land-based essentials for cruisers. This substantial handbook profiles every cruising destination in the world, with information on cruising attractions, history, culture, climate(including average monthly temperatures and rainfall, plus tropical storm seasons), local laws, regulations and formalities, facilities available, plus public holidays and events, emergency telephone numbers, and much more. Everything the cruiser needs to know about. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it is not only a must-have onboard reference work for long distance sailors, but will undoubtedly inspire the adventurous to sail where they have never sailed before.
