I saw this book in the library, and because I'm planning a sea voyage that will pass that way, I thought I'd read it. If I were a nervous sailor, that might have been a really stupid decision. So many shipwrecks and tragedies have occurred in and around the Juan De Fuca Strait between Vancouver Island and the Washington coast, and this book tells about them in straightforward--but sometimes chilling--prose.
The stories aren't dramatized much, but give enough information for your own imagination to take hold.
Though parts of the first chapter were quite dry, and I wished some of the nautical terms had been better explained, it was a very interesting read. And a testament to the power of the sea.
I loved the photographs and drawings throughout, but I would really have appreciated a map. Thank goodness for Google.
I would read more by Anthony Dalton.
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