Inside Passage Companion by Joe Upton

Inside Passage Companion by Joe Upton

Fifty years after doing a college thesis comparing Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis and Ionesco's play Rhinoceros, Ethan Hirsh takes a lively look at how the two works have withstood the test of time, with surprising results from around the world-- new adaptations, new media, and new reasons for their ongoing and growing popularity. The author's original thesis from 1967 is included in its entirety and endures as a valid and entertaining work of literary criticism, analyzing how the two writers used the device of physical transformation to achieve their parallel goals. Hirsh supplements his recent research with a Coda for Conservation that examines the dire plight of endangered rhinos in the wild.

Traveling Northwest waters as a commercial fisherman since 1965 in small craft and large, Joe Upton gained intimate knowledge of the coast from Puget Sound to the Arctic Circle.

In the 1970s, Upton lived and fished out of a tiny roadless island fishing community in Southeast Alaska. His first book, Alaska Blues, based on those years, was hailed as One of those books you want to proclaim a classic, by the Seattle PI.

In 1995, Upton started Coastal Publishing, to produce illustrated maps and guidebooks for Alaska cruise passengers. In 2010, he began working with film maker and commercial fishermen Dan Kowalski to film many of the stories that he had heard over the years.

Upton lives with his wife on Bainbridge Island, WA and Vinalhaven Island, ME.