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Excerpts from Reviews of Voyages to Windward
A gorgeous display of color photos throughout makes Voyages to
Windwawrd an exciting visual display, spiced with high adventure and not a few practical tips.
The Midwest Book Review
If Voyages to Windward doesn’t inspire you to hoist your sails
and weigh your anchor for a coastal exploration of your very own, then saltwater doesn’t run in your veins.
Joseph Kula, CanWest News Service
….we wouldn’t even consider sailing the west coast without this
invaluable, beautiful, historical book. Just grab your charts and go!
Jo Baily and Carl Nyberg, 48 degrees North
To put this book in
with the usual guides is to put a Sigurd Olson book with a Cub Scout manual on the outdoors; to compare a Herreshoff skiff
to a plywood dinghy. …..
Overall, a gem of a
book. If you sail or even have any intention of voyaging along the outer coast of Vancouver Island
you will need this book. Or you can indulge yourself and buy a copy so you can dream about the journey.
Dee Longenbaugh, Sitka Daily Sentinel and KTOO radio, Juneau
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| Harbour Publishing (2010) |
Excerpts from Reviews of Glaciers, Bears and Totems
Runner-up: Foreword Reviews' Book of the Year Award, Travel Essays category (2010).
...you are in for a lovely virtual trip.... The writing is not only well researched, but lively and even witty. …All in all, highly recommended..
--Dee Longenbaugh, Sitka Daily Sentinel
“(T)he author and her husband...spent three summers cruising what many
consider to be the last frontier, delving deeper into the characters, culture, and abundant natural wonders of Southeast Alaska. “Was the real Alaska waiting for
us?” the author asks in her introduction. Every
reader fascinated with this cruising area will find out in this well-written and entertaining travel book.
--Elaine Lembo, Cruising World
...for every view blocked by a looming cruise ship Hulsizer finds vision
of the real Alaska, and her attention to detail and depth of knowledge of the area paints a compelling picture of the land
and sea, as well as its "permanent" residents, human and non. A trained photographer, Hulsizer fills the hardbound book
with page after page of beautiful black and white and color photos to gude readers along Osprey's travels.
--Sailing
Glaciers, Bears and Totems: Sailing in Search of the Real Southeast Alaska
is informed, informative, inspired and inspiring, and a welcome addition to community library collections and personal reading
lists.
--Midwest Book Review
Glaciers, Bears and Totems: Sailing in Search of the Real Southeast Alaska
is Elsie Hulsizer's quest to find the authentic spirit of the north. It is a captivating tale of adventure and discovery that
will be enjoyed with or without a sailboat.
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Throughout this captivating read, Hulsizer struggles with the question of whether
the real Alaska survived the tourist boom. Just when another cruise liner blocks her view, a silver totem reveals itself in
the woods. For every encounter with a balding cruise ship passenger, Hulsizer comes across a bald eagle, a spouting whale,
or a foraging grizzly. ...
Despite a spike in modern tourist touches, Alaska shows itself to be a place
of remains: cabins, canneries, villages ...history. Among the ghosts, Hulsizer discovers the vibrant cultural life that
survives in Alaska through the art, festivals, and people who inhabit the surviving towns.
--Northwest Yachting
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Magazine profiles of Elsie Hulsizer
| Alaska Dreamer |
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| Elsie Hulsizer: Sharing the Adventure |
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| Elsie Hulsizer: The Accidental author |
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