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Tales From Hidden Basin, by Dick Hammond, published by Harbour Publishing, 1996 (256 pp., PB, $17.95). In this fascinating and powerful book of short stories, Sunshine Coast log salvor Dick Hammond draws on his father's memories of homesteading on the shores of Hidden Basin, Nelson Island, at the turn of the century. Hammond's tales vividly convey the freedom and wilderness of a coastal boyhood, and the challenges and frustrations settlers faced in trying  to grind a living out of an inhospitable coast. Through these stories strides a parade of larger-than-life heroes, villains and coastal characters. Tales attains the same sort of mythic power that has made Wylie Blanchet's The Curve of Time a coastal classic, and will undoubtedly send cruising readers beachcombing for traces of the lost time and place it recaptures so clearly.