What: Launch event and party for The Wind From All Directions, by Ron Thompson, to be released by military publisher Double Dagger Books
When: Thursday March 14, evening.
Location: The Pilot Tavern (Yonge & Cumberland, in Yorkville) in Toronto.
The Wind From All Directions is set in 1792, during the encounter in Nootka Sound between the RN’s Lieutenant George Vancouver and the Spanish commodore Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. Quadra and Vancouver were sent to the Pacific northwest to resolve the Nootka Crisis, a territorial dispute that had brought their two countries to the brink of war.