Réanne Hemingway-Douglass holds a BA degree in French from Pomona College. She attended Claremont Graduate University and the University of Grenoble, France. Sailor, writer, cyclist and language teacher, Réanne's articles have appeared in numerous outdoor magazines. Her best-selling book, Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare, which describes pitchpoling in the Great Southern Ocean, has been published in French and Italian and is now being translated into Spanish. She is also the author of the awarding-winning The Shelburne Escape Line - Secret Rescues of Allied Aviators by the French Underground, the British Royal Navy and London's MI-9, and the Tierra del Fuego cycling memoir, Two Women Against the Wind.
Don Douglass, who beganRéanne Hemingway-Douglass holds a BA degree in French from Pomona College. She attended Claremont Graduate University and the University of Grenoble, France. Sailor, writer, cyclist and language teacher, Réanne's articles have appeared in numerous outdoor magazines. Her best-selling book, Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare, which describes pitchpoling in the Great Southern Ocean, has been published in French and Italian and is now being translated into Spanish. She is also the author of the awarding-winning The Shelburne Escape Line - Secret Rescues of Allied Aviators by the French Underground, the British Royal Navy and London's MI-9, and the Tierra del Fuego cycling memoir, Two Women Against the Wind.
Don Douglass, who began exploring Northwest waters in 1949 as a youth, has sailed the Inside Passage on everything from a pleasure craft to a Coast Guard icebreaker. Don has a Masters in Business Economics from Claremont Graduate University and holds honorary membership in the International Association of Cape Horners. He has also been elected to the Mountain Biking Hall of Fame, as one of the founders of the sport. With his wife and business partner, Réanne, he is the co-author of the acclaimed Exploring nautical guidebook series that covers coastal waterways from San Diego to Southwest Alaska. He is also the author of Farewell to a Queen - The Mysterious Sinking of the Price of BC Ferries, and two memoirs, Beyond Cape Horn and Sailing Off the Anchor, all published by Cave Art Press....more
I have been fascinated by the recent events concerning a missing airliner and have a storyline/manuscript with the working title of "Dilemma" that focuses on the question of how a jumbo jet might disappear without a trace. Click here to read the preliminary report released to the public on May 1, as well as the cargo manifest. Interested parties should contact me, Don Douglas
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