Beneath Waves and Shadows: The Sinking of the Steamship Valencia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250403537)

Vendor: Tyler Hooper
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Format: Hardcover
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Beneath Waves and Shadows: The Sinking of the Steamship Valencia

$31.00

Beneath Waves and Shadows: The Sinking of the Steamship Valencia

$31.00
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping untold story of the tragic sinking of the steamship Valencia in the pacific northwest in 1906, for fans of David Grann, Candice Millard, and Erik Larsen.

The sinking of the Valencia was one of the most harrowing and significant disasters of its era--and an important precursor to the fabled sinking of the Titanic six years later. Based on Tyler Hooper's years of painstaking archival research, Beneath Waves and Shadows brings the catastrophic Valencia sinking to life and establishes it as a pivotal moment in the remarkable history of the Pacific Northwest.

On a mild January day in 1906, the Valencia steamed out of San Francisco and began the four-day voyage to Seattle. It was a journey made countless times by steamships in those years, yet routine as the journey may have seemed, the Valencia's crew were well aware of what could go wrong. Hundreds of ships had gone down off the west coast of Vancouver Island, an area known as the "Graveyard of the Pacific" for its poor visibility, rocky shoals, and fearsome currents.

The Valencia's captain, Oscar Marcus Johnson, was an experienced mariner, but on the third day of the journey, he lost his bearings in the increasingly thick winter fog of the Pacific Northwest. The vessel's hull was torn by jagged rocks on Vancouver Island's shallow coastline--beginning a terrifying multi-day ordeal for those onboard and a desperate "Hail Mary" rescue operation for the island's lighthouse keepers and telegraph operators. Of the approximately 165 souls who left San Francisco, fewer than 40 would survive.

Dramatic, tragic and powerfully written, Beneath Waves and Shadows tells the story of the passengers and crew's struggle to survive, following the tradition of classic bestselling stories of disaster at sea.

Author: Tyler Hooper
ISBN-10: 1250403537
ISBN-13: 9781250403537
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2027
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d
By Tyler Hooper
By Tyler Hooper
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TYLER HOOPER was born in Ottawa, Ontario, but for the past decade has made his home in Victoria, B.C., a place whose rugged coastline and maritime history have shaped both his life and his work. Around 2015, he became captivated by a local legend about a ghostly ship said to haunt the waters off Vancouver Island: the Valencia. What began as a passing curiosity quickly became an obsession, and a research project he thought would last a few weeks quietly evolved into a years-long investigation.

While reporting his feature for The Atavist about the wreck, Tyler hiked the northern half of the West Coast Trail, retracing the forested headlands and storm-beaten beaches that a handful of survivors crossed in 1906. He later shared his findings through public talks for the Maritime Museum of B.C. and the Nanaimo Historical Society, and in 2020, he assisted the Maritime Museum with research for a dedicated exhibit on the disaster.

Tyler holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Waterloo and later earned a Certificate in Journalism from Langara College in Vancouver, graduating with the Jeani Read-Michael Mercer Fellowship. That fellowship enabled him to further refine his reporting skills at the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers. His writing has appeared in The Atavist Magazine, VICE, CBC, and the Vancouver Sun, and a feature he wrote for VICE was adapted into a CBC documentary he helped produce. Beneath Waves and Shadows is his first book.

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