ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Education is the road from
obstinate ignorance to
thoughtful uncertainty.
—UNKNOWN

Guidebooks and Maps

The following resources include sailing guides, coast pilots, specialty maps, general travel guides, and kayaking guides that I have found helpful.

Alderson, Doug. Sea Kayak Around Vancouver Island. Calgary-Victoria-Vancouver: Rocky Mountain Books, 2004.

Backlund, Gary, and Paul Grey. Kayaking Vancouver Island. Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2003.

Campbell, Ken. A Sea Kayaker’s Guide to South Puget Sound. Tacoma, WA: Little Bay Press, 1999.

———. A Sea Kayaker’s Guide to North Puget Sound. Tacoma, WA: Little Bay Press, 2002.

———. Shades of Gray: Sea Kayaking in Western Washington. Tacoma, WA: Little Bay Press, 1999.

———. A Sea Kayaker’s Guide to the San Juan Islands. Tacoma, WA: Little Bay Press, 2004.

Chappell, John. Cruising Beyond Desolation Sound. Surrey, BC, Canada: Naikoon Marine, 1992.

Coastal Cruise Tour Guides. Alaska & Canada’s Inside Passage Cruise Tour Guide. Seattle, WA: Coastal Cruise Tour Guides, 2000.

Douglass, Don, and Reanne Hemingway-Douglass. Exploring the South Coast of British Columbia. Anacortes, WA: Fine Edge Productions, 1999.

———. Exploring Southeast Alaska. Anacortes, WA: Fine Edge Productions, 2000.

———. Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia. Anacortes, WA: Fine Edge Productions, 2001.

DuFresne, Jim. Glacier Bay National Park: A Backcountry Guide to the Glaciers and Beyond. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 1987.

Dwyer, Denis. Alone in the Passage: An Explorers Guide to Sea Kayaking the Inside Passage. Self-published, 2013.

Eppenbach, Sarah. Alaska’s Southeast, Touring the Inside Passage. Old Saybrook, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1994.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Sailing Directions, British Columbia Coast (South Portion). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 1999.

———. Sailing Directions, British Columbia Coast (North Portion). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 1991.

Fortier, Dennis. “The Kayaker’s Course Plotter.” Sea Kayaker, December 2003.

Harbord, Heather. Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast. Calgary-Victoria-Vancouver: Rocky Mountain Books, 2005.

Hawthorne, Matt. “A Land of Rock and Ice: The Lynn Canal.” Sea Kayaker, June 2012.

Hilson, Stephen. Exploring Puget Sound & British Columbia. Seattle, WA: Evergreen Pacific, 1996.

———. Exploring Alaska & British Columbia. Seattle, WA: Evergreen Pacific, 1997.

Howard, Jim. Guide to Sea Kayaking in Southeast Alaska. Old Saybrook, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1999.

Ince, John, and Hedi Kottner. Sea Kayaking Canada’s West Coast. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Raxas Books, 1982.

Malin, R.O. The Northwest Coast. Olympia, WA: Sobay Co., 1984.

McGee, Peter, ed. Kayak Routes of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Greystone Books, 2004.

McRae, Bill, Judy Jewell, and Jennifer Snarski. Pacific Northwest. Oakland, CA: Lonely Planet, 1999.

Morris, Frank, and W. R. Heath. Marine Atlas, Volume 2. Renton, WA: Bayless Enterprises, Inc., 199

Mueller, Ted, and Marge Mueller. British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, Afoot & Afloat. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 2000.

Scherer, Migael. A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound. Camden, ME: International Marine, 1995.

Skillman, Don. Adventure Kayaking, Trips in Glacier Bay. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 1998.

Snowden, Mary Ann. Island Paddling. Custer, WA: Orca Book Publishers, 1997.

Stevens, K. Coastal Waters Recreation Maps. Victoria, BC, Canada: Coastal Waters Recreation, 2000.

Upton, Joe. The Coastal Companion, A Guide for the Alaska-Bound Traveler. Seattle, WA: Coastal Publishing, 1995.

US Department of Commerce. United States Coast Pilot 7. Washington, DC: National Ocean Service, 2000.

———. United States Coast Pilot 8. Washington, DC: National Ocean Service, 1994.

Van der Ree, Frieda. Exploring the Coast by Boat, Vol. 1. Seattle, WA: The Writing Works, 1979.

Voss, Jennifer. Klondike Trail, The Complete Hiking and Paddling Guide. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 2001.

Washbourne, Randel. Kayaking Puget Sound, the San Juans and Gulf Islands. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 1990.

———. The Coastal Kayaker. Seattle, WA: Pacific Search Press, 1983.

Washington Water Trails Association. The Cascadia Marine Trail Guidebook. Seattle, WA: Washington Water Trails Association, 2003.

Wood, Charles E. Charlie’s Charts North to Alaska. Surrey, BC, Canada: Charlie’s Charts, 2001.

Woodward, Meredith Bain, and Ron Woodward. Along the Inside Passage: Stories, Pictures and Facts from Seattle and Vancouver to Skagway. Canmore, Alberta, Canada: Altitude Publishing, 2004.

KAYAKING—HOW-TO

These resources include general and highly specific references detailing kayaking techniques.

Alderson, Doug. “The Vertical Storm Roll: Trick or Skill?” Sea Kayaker, December 2001.

Barber, Kent. “VHF and FRS Radios: A New Generation.” Sea Kayaker, August 1999.

Burch, David. Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation. Old Saybrook, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1993.

Cunningham, Chris. “Yakers Breathing System.” Sea Kayaker, October 2002.

Dowd, John. Sea Kayaking, A Manual for Long-Distance Touring. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 1983.

Dowd, John. “Seamanship for Kayakers.” Canoe & Kayak, May 2004.

Hume, Bob. “Gauging High Tides: The Rule of 12s.” Sea Kayaker, June 1999.

Hutchinson, Derek C. The Complete Book of Sea Kayaking. Old Saybrook, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1994.

Lai, Gary. “Keeping in Touch from Anywhere: Two Affordable Handheld Satellite Phones for Sea Kayakers.” Sea Kayaker, December 2003.

Moyer, Lee. Sea Kayak Navigation Simplified. Seattle, WA: Alpen Books Press, 2001.

Stamer, Greg. “The Petrussen Maneuver.” Sea Kayaker, August 2000.

VOYAGE ACCOUNTS

These trip accounts include canoe, sailing, and kayak voyages, not all necessarily along the Inside Passage but all helpful to me, in some way or another, in the compilation of this book. Comments on some books follow.

Bossiere, Pierre. “Kayak Smuggling in the San Juans,” Paddler, November/December 2001. Not an account of one particular trip but rather of a modern trend.

Broze, Matt. “Thrown a Curve by the Surf.” Sea Kayaker, December 1997. Accident account near Cape Caution.

Burroughs, John, and John Muir, et al. Alaska: The Harriman Expedition, 1899. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc, 1986 (Original: 1901).

Calvin, Jack. “Nakwasina Goes North: A Man, a Woman and a Pup Cruise from Tacoma to Juneau in a 17-Foot Canoe.” The National Geographic Magazine, July 1933.

Carey, Betty Lowman. Bijaboji, North to Alaska by Oar. Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2004.

Conrad, Susan Marie. Inside: One Woman’s Journey through the Inside Passage. Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, 2016.

Coyle, Brendan. War on Our Doorstep: The Unknown Campaign on North America’s West Coast. Surrey, BC, Canada: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., British Columbia Arts Council, 2002.

Doig, Ivan. The Sea Runners. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1983. Extraordinary fictionalized account of three indentured servants’ escape from Sitka, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, in a stolen Tlingit canoe during the Russian administration of Alaska.

Duff, Chris. On Celtic Tides. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999.

Fisher, Robin. Vancouver’s Voyage. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1992.

Fons, Valerie. Keep It Moving, Baja by Canoe. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 1986.

Giddings, J. Calvin. Demon River Apurimac. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1996.

Gillet, Ed. “Chilean Channels.” Sea Kayaker, Summer 1985.

Hahn, Jennifer. Spirited Waters. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 2001. Account of partial—and solo—Inside Passage kayaking trip with emphasis on natural history.

Kologe, Brian. “John MacGregor: A Victorian-era Paddler.” Sea Kayaker, August 1999.

Lamb, Dana, with June Cleveland. Enchanted Vagabonds. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Depression-era account of newlyweds on a kayak sailing trip from San Diego, California, to Cocos Island, Panama, with little more than a .22 and a gold pan. Absolutely engrossing.

Lydon, Tim. Passage to Alaska. Blaine, WA: Hancock House Publishers, 2003.

Poole, Michael. Ragged Islands, Paddling the Inside Passage. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991.

Queen, Randall. “When Does It End?” Sea Kayaker, February 1997. Instructive account of how not to approach the Inside Passage.

Raban, Jonathan. Passage to Juneau. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1999. Some really good writing.

Rasmussen, Greg. Kayaking in Paradise. Vancouver/Toronto, Canada: Whitecap Books, 1997.

Ricks, Byron. Homelands, Kayaking the Inside Passage. New York, NY: Avon Books, 1999.

Robertson, Dougal. Survive the Savage Sea. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1973.

Rodgers, Joel W. Watertrail. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books, 1998. Portrait of kayaking the Cascadia Marine Trail in Puget Sound and the San Juans.

Schmidt, Peter. “North to Alaska.” Appeal Tribune: August 21, 2002. Account of traveling the Inside Passage in a cruise ship.

Stephens, Nathaniel “Beyond the Fjords: Southeast Alaska’s Outer Coast.” Sea Kayaker, February/March 2014.

Stiller, Eric. Keep Australia on Your Left: A True Story of an Attempt to Circumnavigate Australia by Kayak. New York, NY: Forge Books, 2000.

Steinbeck, John. The Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1971.

Upton, Joe. Journeys Through the Inside Passage. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Whitecap Books, 1992. Vignettes from a commercial fisherman that capture particularly well the Inside Passage.

Vancouver, George. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World: in which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Surveyed. London: J. Stockdale, 1801.

Wade, John McLaughlin. “The Hopeful Journey.” (unpublished MS, 1997).

Wise, Ken C. Cruise of the Blue Flujin. Fowlerville, MI: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1987. Depression-era account of three Boy Scouts who canoe the Inside Passage. Fascinating.

HISTORY and ANTHROPOLOGY

Not all these pertain directly to the Inside Passage, though they were all very helpful. Of those that do, some are annotated.

Anderson, Hugo. The Inside Passage to Alaska: A Short History. Miamisburg, OH: Anderson Publishing Co., 1998. Excellent—and short. There is no better overview.

Bauer, K. Jack. The Mexican War, 1846–1848. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Benton, William, Publisher. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 1979.

Bobrick, Benson. East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia. New York, NY: Poseidon Press, 1992. The definitive—and engrossing—account.

Brodie, Fawn M. No Man Knows My History. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Biography of Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

Brown, Craig, ed. The Illustrated History of Canada. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books, Ltd., 2000.

Chevigny, Hector. Russian America, The Great Alaskan Venture 1741–1867. Portland, OR: Binford & Mort Publishing, 1992 (Original: 1965). A page-turner and excellent overview but suffers factually from pre-glasnost lack of accurate detail.

Christensen, Carol, and Thomas Christensen. The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846–1848. San Francisco, CA: Bay Books, 1998.

Conquest, Robert. Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1979.

De Voto, Bernard, ed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. Excellent. A true integration of history, anthropology, and biology.

Drucker, Philip. Indians of the Northwest Coast. Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press, 1955. Good, accurate, and basic reference.

Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far from God, The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846–1848. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Fenn, Elizabeth A. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Ferguson, Will. Canadian History for Dummies. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: CDG Books Canada, 2000. If you thought Canadian history was dull, tackle this extremely entertaining tome.

Ferguson, Will, and Ian Ferguson. How to Be a Canadian. Vancouver/Toronto/Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2001.

Frankevich, Joan. NPCA Comments on Glacier Bay EIS on Vessel Quotas and Operating Requirements, National Parks Conservation Association. Anchorage, AK: June 6, 2002.

Ginzburg, Eugenia Semyonovna. Journey Into the Whirlwind. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967. This and its sequel (below) are memoirs of one prisoner’s life in Kolyma. Both are excellent.

———. Within the Whirlwind. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.

Gough, Barry. First Across the Continent. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Short account of Alexander Mackenzie’s trek across Canada.

Hamilton, William. The Crown of Shakes. Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, 1998. Written accounts of the Wrangell, Alaska, area Tlingit oral traditions and stories. Suffers from a lack of good editing.

Hayes, Derek. First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2001.

Hays, H. R. Children of the Raven. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. Ethnographic portrait of Northwest Coast Indians focusing on religion, myth and drama.

Hester, James J., and Sarah M. Nelson. Studies in Bella Bella Prehistory. Burnaby, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University Archaeology Press, 1978.

Holm, Bill. Northwest Coast Indian Art, An Analysis by Form. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1998. Classic in the field.

Hough, Richard. Captain James Cook, a Biography. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997.

Jewitt, John R. White Slaves of the Nootka. Surrey, BC, Canada: Heritage House Publishing Company, Ltd., 1987. Account of the captivity of an American sailor by the Nootka of Vancouver Island. Short and good.

Kramer, Pat. Native Sites in Western Canada, Canmore, Alberta, Canada: Altitude Publishing, 1998.

Lillard, Charles. Seven Shillings a Year, The History of Vancouver Island. Ganges, BC, Canada: Horsdal & Schubart, 1993.

MacIsaac, Ron, Don Clark, and Lillard Charles. The Devil of DeCourcy Island, The Brother XII. Victoria, BC, Canada: Porcepic Books, 1989.

Malcolm, Andrew H. The Canadians. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

Matthews, Owen. Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America. New York-London-New Delhi-Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013.

McGinnis, Joe. Going to Extremes. New York, NY: New American Library, 1980. Great portrait of Alaskan characters.

McPhee, John. Coming into the Country. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1985. An even better portrait of the type of person that goes to Alaska with the added bonus of a slice of Alaskan politics.

———. The Survival of the Bark Canoe. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1975.

Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003.

Morton, Desmond. A Short History of Canada. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2001.

Naske, Claus-M., and Herman E. Slotnick. Alaska, A History of the 49th State. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Not the most engrossing read but about the only easily accessible work on Alaskan history after the Russians and native life after the Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act.

Oswalt, Wendell H. This Land Was Theirs. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1966.

Rennick, Penny. Alaska Geographic: Russian America. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Geographic, 1999. Good history of Russian America. Short and with wonderful illustrations.

Roppel, Patricia. An Historical Guide to Revillagigedo and Gravina Islands, Alaska. Wrangell, AK: Farwest Research, 1995.

Rosen, Yereth. “Alaska to Cruise Ships: We’re Not Your Sewer,” Christian Science Monitor, July 12, 2001.

Stark, Peter. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire, A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival. New York: Harper Collins, 2014.

Stewart, Hilary. Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1979.

Sword, Wiley. President Washington’s Indian War. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

Van Wagoner, Richard S. Mormon Polygamy, A History. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1989.

Weber, David J. The Mexican Frontier 1821–1846, The American Southwest Under Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.

Zimmerly, David W. Qayaq, Kayaks of Alaska and Siberia. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 1989. There is no book like this. Well illustrated.

Zuehlke, Mark. The B.C. Fact Book. Vancouver/Toronto, BC, Canada: Whitecap Books, 1995.

NATURAL HISTORY

Barash, David P., and Judith Eve Lipton. The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2001.

Bernd, Heinrich. Ravens in Winter. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1989. Account of an ethologist attempting to understand ravens and raven natural history.

———. Mind of the Raven. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1999. More of the same.

Buchsbaum, Ralph. Animals without Backbones. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1948. What can you say about the natural history of invertebrates? Buchsbaum says it all.

Buchsbaum, Ralph, and Lorus J. Milne. The Lower Animals: Living Invertebrates of the World. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1972. More of the same but less academic and with great photographs.

Haigh, Jane, Kelly Hegarty Lammers, and Patricia Walsh. Catch and Release: The Insiders’ Guide to Alaska Men. Fairbanks/Homer, AK: Hillside & Ridgetop Press, 1997. The natural history of real men.

Herrero, Stephen. Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2002. THE definitive book on bears.

Keen, Richard. Skywatch, The Western Weather Guide. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Inc., 1987. By illustrating western North American weather, Keen explains the phenomenon of weather.

Koerner, Michael. “When Seals “Attack,” Sea Kayaker, April 2002.

Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979.

Scheffer, Victor B. The Year of the Seal. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970.

Sibley, David Allen. The Sibley Guide to Birds. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Trefil, James S. A Scientist at the Seashore. New York, NY: Collier Books, 1987. Want to know how tides work? Why there’s sand on beaches? Why the sea is salty, and much more? Trefil is clear, concise, and fun.

Wynne, Kate. Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska. Fairbanks, AK: Sea Grant, 1997.