Fort Ross:
The Ship in the Shadow - By Roger
McAfee
BOOK REVIEWS AND READER COMMENTS
“For the
history buff, there is a bit of history of the Canadian
Arctic and the role of the Hudson Bay Company and its arctic
freighters that sailed the ice-choked Northwest Passage
to service its far-flung trading posts. For the lover of
wooden boats, there is a description of of the building
of the Fort Ross in 1938. And for the armchair
sailor, there is the account of the trip in 1969 by the
author and a group of friends to bring the Fort Ross
from Nova Scotia on the Canadian east coast through the
Caribbean and the Panama Canal to Vancouver, British Columbia,
on the west coast of Canada....This book has a lot to offer
the reader who enjoys insights into events of our past as
well as accounts of memorable cruises by those who don’t
claim to “know it all.” Since few of us consider
ourselves to be experts, we can relate with the events in
this book.”
