Naturally Salty: Coastal Characters of the Pacific Northwest

Ann Turner is the financial and budget manager of the University of
British Columbia Library.

The sea touches lives in many ways, some less obvious than others. Among
the 31 extraordinary individuals profiled in this collection of
biographies are not only the boat builders and master mariners one might
expect to find, but also a cataloguer of shipwrecks, a lighthouse
keeper, several marine biologists, and a playwright who found the quiet
she needed aboard her boat. All are now based in the area around the
Strait of Georgia, Puget Sound, and the B.C. central coast, but they
came here from all over the world. Marine journalist Marianne Scott lets
them tell much of their stories in their own words, revealing what
enterprising and resilient folk they are, and need to be, to live so
closely with the sea.