Chapter 3 - The Accidental Tourist

Scattered across Barkley Sound like jade and silver beads from a shattered necklace, the Broken Group archipelago provides a stunningly beautiful maze of sheltered passages and white shell beaches in waters that teem with marine life. And it was near here, at Bamfield, just before mid-summer almost 220 years ago, with the light of the northern latitudes lying long on the swells rolling in from China, that the sailing ship Imperial Eagle dropped anchor and the first non-aboriginal woman of whom...

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