Under Wide and Starry Skies

Nicholas Coughlan

Adlard Coles

£22.00

Fifty anchorages in seas less travelled. The introductory map offers the enticing impression that you could join the dots and visit all these remote and beautiful places in order, circumnavigating as you went. And so, perhaps you could – there’s planning information for every destination, including approach routes.  However, this is a selection built over 40 years of extensive and varied cruising, interspersed with diplomatic postings. Nicholas and Jenny Coughlan live in British Colombia, which gives a distinctive starting point. Alaska and Japan are immediate first stops, the Pacific their backyard cruising ground.

Nicholas Coughlan is an experienced writer with an ear for anecdote and an easy style which makes every essay a pleasure to read, even from an armchair.