This book is a quintessential wilderness classic coming from the author's quarter century of living in the heart of the Tongass National Forest, our planet's biggest temperate rainforest.
This gargantuan rainforest is unique in that it is composed primarily of islands, the thousand-and-one islands of the Alexander Archipelago. Who then is better qualified to explore and appreciate the forest's stunning fjords and channels that a sailor? The author spent his entire youth sailing in this region and as a jack-tar on the schooner Vigilant engaged in the North Pacific China trade.
The...