Sunday September 22, 2013 11am - 5pm.
Halifax Waterfront, around the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Brian Whitehouse
Event Info: 'HMCS Sackville' Stage at 2:30 - 3:00
Brian Whitehouse was conceived at sea in 1953, as his British parents emigrated to Canada. As the fourth son of a battle-hardened Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy sailor, he spent his youth sailing the coasts of Canada. This lead to a career in oceanography and adventures on three oceans.
Books
A Sense of the Sea
In A Sense of the Sea, Brian G. Whitehouse presents the sea we grew up with, and the one that is coming. The first part of the book presents an oceanographer’s view of the oceans. It covers WW II and the formative years of the baby boomer generation – the heyday of oceanography, when the United States had a fathomless thirst for discovery, the Soviet Union was in our shadows, Rachael Carson defined our sense of environment, and the adventures of Jacques Cousteau took us to unknown worlds. In the second part of the two-part book, through influences of his Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy father, Whitehouse demonstrates that in each of us there is a personal perception of the sea that has little to do with our knowledge of it. Additional information and related photos available at http://Facebook.com/SenseTheSea
