In Ultimate Sailing Green manages to convey the pounding of waves and the lashing of sails, as well as the sense of motion, transition, anticipation and apprehension felt by sailors and spectators alike.
Douglas Hunter has written extensively on historical matters, including marine and terrestrial archaeology, cartography, and exploration. He is presently a doctoral candidate in history at Canada's York University. He maintains the blog Age of Discovery News and can be followed on Twitter at @ageofdiscovery and @DWHauthor. His author website is www.douglashunter.ca, and it provides additional materials on recent releases and archived magazine and journal articles. You can also find him at Librarything and Goodreads.
His most recent books are:
* The Race to the New World, on the exploration rivalry between Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. Visit www.racenewworld.org to learn more
* Half Moon, on the Henry Hudson voyage of 1609
* God's Mercies, on the traumatic convergence in the careers of Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson.
His work on historical subjects has also appeared in Canadian Geographic and Canada's History (formerly The Beaver) and at History News Network. He is a featured interview in National Geographic's The Hudson: The River that Defined America, and in the CBC documentary The Mystery of Champlain. He won the 2003 National Business Book Award for The Bubble and the Bear. God's Mercies was a finalist for both the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Governor-General's Literary Awards.
A lifelong sailor, he is coauthor with Steve Killing of Yacht Design Explained. He raced Lightnings in his youth, and campaigned a Fusion 15 racing dinghy more recently. An advocate of Great Lakes wilderness cruising, he explores Georgian Bay aboard a C&C 27.
