RINSINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

In the third of his watery books, the author goes in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Of people enchanted or driven t o despair by the water, accompanied by whales and birds and seals familiar spirits swimming and flying with the author on his mean dering odyssey from suburbia into the unknown.Along the way, he encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers an d era-defining performers, wild utopians and national heroes famous or infamous, they are all surprisingly, and sometimes fatally, linked to...[Read more]