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Lauded essayist takes to the high seas in hot pursuit of elusive birds, artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor.
"Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood is my favorite." —Jonathan Franzen
Charles Hood is on a boat, wearing at least two life jackets as he scans the sky for seabirds and plumbs the depths of his—and our—relationship with the vast Pacific Ocean. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for his collection of essays A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature, Hood now brings his irrepressible curiosity to the lives of petrels, frigate birds, sea snakes, and flying fish. During our voyage, he resurrects Melville's journey on tempestuous seas to San Francisco, takes us into the storm-tossed minds and paintings of J. M. W. Turner and Winslow Homer, and surfaces the trauma—still reverberating—to ocean and family ecologies alike from World War II. As sharp and witty as ever, Hood also turns his scrutiny on a more personal history, navigating murky waters of harm and forgiveness, love and entrapment. Full of wonder, joy, and terror at the shared capacity of the ocean and the humans on its edges to nurture life and damage it irreparably, this book is a vessel, seaworthy and transportive.
Contents
Author's Note
Good Water, Bad Water
A Tropicbird for Trudy
Sea Level Doesn't Exist
The Half-Life of Salt
Sunrise with Sea Snakes
Double Hyena Ollies a Railing
How to Be an Albatross
The Lazarus Birds of Norfolk Island
Watching Pingüinos at the Rey Jorge Dump
Ernst Mayr Was Never Bored
Bombing the Barnacles
Pages from My Last Field Guide
Seaweed, Stones, Seed Pearls, Twine
How to Photograph a Bird
Going to the Museum with Winslow Homer
The Biblical Tide Pools of Cannery Row
Melville in Patagonia
Ghost Ship
Notes and Image Credits
About the Author
A Note on Type
