Book review: In her memoir 'Deep Waters,' biologist Beth Ann Mathews captures in both broad strokes and fine detail the fluctuations of life and family upheaval in Southeast Alaska.
By Beth Ann Mathews; She Writes Press, 2023; 338 pages; $17.95.
Mathews, her husband, and their nine-year-old son lived in Juneau at the time. Jim Taggart had just retired from a federal research agency; Mathews was happily pursuing her career as a marine biologist — doing research on marine mammals, teaching at the university, and heading up the Alaska Scientific Review Group to advise federal agencies on marine mammal protection.
The medical journey alternates with passages in which Mathews recalls aspects of their lives together and apart — their courtship and decision to move to Alaska, a time when Taggart rescued a woman from abuse and near-drowning in Costa Rica, both serene and frightening adventures on their sailboat, an earlier time when Taggart used parachute cord for a rescue on Bering Sea ice.
Just three weeks after leaving the hospital, Taggart insists on taking their boat out for a family trip to Taku Harbor and diving for crabs. Soon after that he announces plans to sail around Admiralty Island, some 300 miles over the course of three weeks. Neither of these adventures, in Mathews’ telling, lack drama.
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