{"id":545,"date":"2026-07-11T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=545"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:24:31","slug":"great-book-review-in-the-northern-mariner-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Great Book Review in the Northern Mariner Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A July 8, 2026, review in the highly-respected, peer-reviewed magazine <em><strong>The Northern Mariner<\/strong><\/em> has given <em><strong>Oceans of Fate<\/strong><\/em> a stellar review. For a non-fiction history book that took five years to research and write, it&#8217;s welcomed news the book continues to garner good press, especially by such an important magazine that&#8217;s read in Canada and abroad. <strong>(See The Northern Mariner\/Le Marin Du Nord, 35(3-4), 400-402. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25071\/2561-5467.1423) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Boston-based book reviewer\/author Eric Wiberg notes: <em>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)&#8230;. In reading this thick, softcover research gem, one has a sense of being in good hands all the time&#8230;. Oceans of Fate &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The Northern Mariner&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> review follows excellent reviews by the <em><strong>Literary Review of Canada<\/strong> <\/em>and the <em><strong>Seaboard Review<\/strong> <\/em>of books, as well as praise from other authors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s welcomed news the book continues to garner good press, especially by such an important magazine that&#8217;s read in Canada and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Book Review in the Northern Mariner Magazine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,62,64],"tags":[40,14,11,45,20,13],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-history","category-empress-of-asia","category-nautical-history","category-shipbuilding","tag-canadian-maritime-history","tag-canadian-pacific-steamships","tag-empress-of-asia","tag-oceans-of-fate-peace-and-peril-aboard-the-steamship-empress-of-asia","tag-peacetime-travel","tag-second-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}