A July 8, 2026, review in the highly-respected, peer-reviewed magazine The Northern Mariner has given Oceans of Fate a stellar review. For a non-fiction history book that took five years to research and write, it’s welcomed news the book continues to garner good press, especially by such an important magazine that’s read in Canada and abroad. (See The Northern Mariner/Le Marin Du Nord, 35(3-4), 400-402. https://doi.org/10.25071/2561-5467.1423)
Boston-based book reviewer/author Eric Wiberg notes: Dan Black reveals for us in personable detail, as though in a fireside chat, the conception, life, survival through one war and the start of a second, and painful death of this historic (ship)…. In reading this thick, softcover research gem, one has a sense of being in good hands all the time…. Oceans of Fate “details a story with as many heaving variants as the North Pacific in winter and makes them memorable through the humanistic telling of eye-witness accounts.”
The Northern Mariner’s review follows excellent reviews by the Literary Review of Canada and the Seaboard Review of books, as well as praise from other authors.