The following post is a book review by Pete Trickett.
“The Perfect Storm” gets mentioned on the back cover of Dallas Murphy’s 2004 book Rounding the Horn. The back cover is a testimonial to Murphy’s exquisite exposure of one of the planet’s most extreme regions and is written by Nicholas Crane the author of the well read Mercator. The sense of doom and disaster which floods through The Perfect Storm is repeated time and time again in this book which recounts the history of exploration and attempted settlement of the desolate Beagle Channel coast.
The stories of Cape Horn passagemaking that Dallas Murphy gives us in his book provide details that bombard the reader with all the dangers of decks awash and people lost at sea.
The story of Indians Jemmy Button, York Minster, Boat Memory and Fuegia Basket who in 1829 were shipped from their Tierra Del Fuego homeland to London by Captain Robert Fitzroy aboard the Beagle is legendary.
