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 may be 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.
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