Non-Fiction — Review

Sailing for Glory:
Walters and the Bluenose

by Teri-Lynn Janveau and Allister Thompson
illustrations by Samantha Thompson
Napoleon Publishing, 2006
ISBN 13: 978-1-894917-09-4
$18.95, 72 pp, ages 9 – 12
b/w illustrations & photos, glossary, index
www.napoleonpublishing.com

In Sailing for Glory, the fascinating story of the schooner Bluenose—one of Canada’s most well-known icons—and her skipper, Angus Walters, is chronicled as part of Napoleon Publishing’s Stories of Canada series. Readers learn more than the personal history of Captain Walters and his ship, however; much is written about the period in which fishing was a major part of life for families in Nova Scotia. Fish were caught in sailing vessels at that time, and the work has hard and dangerous. But fishing was not the Bluenose’s only role—she was built to compete in a sailing competition between the US and Canada in which working boats crewed by fishermen competed for the America’s Cup, a trophy first won by the US ship America in a race between the US and England. The Bluenose brought home the Cup many times over, and with the Cup brought fame and glory for Canada.

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