Amaretto

Science & Math

Upton, Joe

Technology

Intl Marine Pub Co

Alaska Blues: A Fisherman's Journal

Alaska Northwest Books

Describes travels along the inland waterway to Alaska through British Columbia

Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Writer and fisherman Joe Upton tells of past explorers and present seafarers on the Inside Passage.

Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Colubmia and Alaska (Caribou Classic)

History

Americas

Runaways on the Inside Passage

Young readers will thrill to this breathless story of courage and determination set in the Alaska wilderness. Abandoned by their mother in Seattle, thirteen-year-old twins Annie and David Ross enlist the help of Lars Hansen, an elderly commercial fisherman, to find their father in Alaska. In late November, when most fishing vessels are decommissioned for the winter, the trio sets out from Puget Sound in a forty-foot salmon troller for an eight-hundred-mile journey along the Inside Passage.
Pursued by the authorities as runaways, and with Lars's health failing, the three experience one adventure after another as they inch their way North, through terrifying winter storms and frightening encounters with strangers. In the process, Annie and David also make new, lasting friendships and kindle personal reserves of strength that they didn't know existed.

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Writer and fisherman Joe Upton recounts the riveting stories of explorers of the past and seafarers of the present in JOURNEYS THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE. His chronicle offers events vivid in their telling: the journey of widow Muriel Blanchet, who solo navigated a small vessel in the 1930s with her five children; the failed meeting of explorers Alexander Mackenzie and George Vancouver in 1793; countless sinkings; and tales from the author's own experiences plying this legendary waterway.

Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska (Caribou Classics)

In this memoir of the herring fishery along the Maine coast in the 1970s,  Joe Upton draws from the place and circumstances a mythic dimension of people in an intimate dance with their natural surroundings.In dories, skiffs, and seiners, fishermen chased herring through moonless nights among the wild offshore islands. Sometimes, when the phosphorescence in the water was firing and the stars were lost behind thick clouds, whales appeared like glowing locomotives beneath the boats, and the herring were shimmering clouds of light. Deep in the night, with surf close at hand, fishermen worked for the one good set that could spell the difference between lean times and a prosperous winter in outport fishing towns, knowing even then that their fishery was dying.  Under the title Amaretto in the 1980s, this memoir gave lyrical voice to a dying way of life in Maine’s herring fishery, just as Men’s Lives (Peter Matthiessen) did for the Long Island surf fishery and Beautiful Swimmers (William Warner) for the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery.Back in print after 25 years, with a new introduction from Joe Upton to bring the story up to date.A swift, compelling read. A wonderful accompaniment for a Maine vacation. A great gift for any fan of sea stories.

Herring Nights: Remembering a Lost Fishery

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Tilbury House

Ready for a cruise up the coast? Here's a great way to explore every mile of it, including the Inside Passage. More than a guide, The Coastal Companion is a fascinating meander up the coast, with stories, maps and photographs, all keyed to the author's unique milemarker system for easier orientation along these complex waterways. Complete with reference pages on birds, boats, fish and whales, port guides, a gallery of northwest artists and illustrated diary pages for writing or sketching, this Coastal Companion is the best companion you could hope to have along for the scenic tour of a lifetime.

The Coastal Companion: A Guide for the Alaska-Bound Traveler

Travel

Canada

Coastal Pub

The Alaska cruise companion: A mile by mile guide

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Upton, Joe. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Upton, Joe