"Boats were always there, floating around my childhood memories," says Will Millar, a former member of The Irish Rovers, in Messing About in Boats: The Nautical Confessions of a Roving Irishman (Whitecap $18.95). Since his childhood encounter with Treasure Island, Millar has dreamed of running away to sea and as an adult, has sailed in Ireland, from Australia to Britain and on the Great Lakes and Canada's Atlantic before settling on the Pacific Coast. 1-55110-620-5

[BCBW 1997] "Maritime"