Last Voyage of the Loch Ryan

Cultural Writing. Humour. Memoir. Evicted from his Tofino pyramid for the last time--courtesy of the Feds--writer Andrew Struthers has the solution: buy an old wooden fishing boat going cheap, courtesy of the Mifflin Plan. He takes up residence onboard with his nine-year-old daughter Pasheabel, and his perennial housing problems are solved. Or are they? THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE LOCH RYAN picks up where the author's prize-winning The Green Shadow left off. This new book is a tragi-comic account of small town life in British Columbia, and of how its residents are affected by the decline of the west coast fishing fleet. Struthers, suddenly ousted from his idyllic life homesteading in the forests of Clayoquot Sound, takes to the high seas in a last-ditch attempt to salvage his free-booting lifestyle from the Forces of Order. "This new account of fish, love and hard celebratory drinking among oddballs on the westernmost West Coast is marvelous...a signal accomplishment, and a great read"--VancouverStruthers, Andrew is the author of 'Last Voyage of the Loch Ryan', published 2004 under ISBN 9781554200085 and ISBN 1554200083.