40,000 Miles in a Canoe and Sea Queen

After working his way up from cabin boy to ship's master during two decades, Captain John C. Voss drifted ashore in 1895, becoming a hotel keeper and family man in Victoria, British Columbia. But he returned to the sea in 1897 to pursue fortune and adventure in small boats and later as commander of several sealing schooners. Most details of his life, origins, and even his death are lost in obscurity. He may have drowned at sea in 1913, or he may have become a taxi driver in the town of Tracy, California, dying there in 1922 Jonathan Raban is the editor of The Oxford Book of the Sea and author of ten critically acclaimed books. He is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, and a New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year. He has been called (by The Guardian) "the finest writer afloat since Conrad."Voss, John C. is the author of '40,000 Miles in a Canoe and Sea Queen' with ISBN 9780071373333 and ISBN 0071373330.