I just finished reviewing Joshua L. Reid's The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs for the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and it exceeding all of my expectations. I will let them publish my more extensive comments, and don't feel it would be right to preempt them here, but let me offer a quick (AND STRONG) recommendation for this book. I have long been aware of this project, and eagerly anticipating the book - mostly because I liked the topic. A maritime-borderland history of the Makah people. Too cool. Little did I realize how remarkably Reid would take an obscure regional history and transform it into a study that should force scholars in a lot of different fields to seriously reconsider some of the Continue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Reid – The Sea is My Country