I love ocean stories, have been reading a lot of memoirs lately, and knew the author’s work, so I tried the sample chapters and was instantly hooked. I was browsing books on the Kindle when I came across the latest from Susan Casey, who wrote one of my favorite books, The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks about the white sharks near the Farallon Islands, and the scientists who observed them. This book will fascinate anyone who has even the slightest interest in the oceans that surround us.
Casey also smoothly translates the science of her subject into engaging prose. We get vivid historical reconstructions and her firsthand account of being on a jet-ski watching surfers risk their lives. Casey writes compellingly of the threat and beauty of the ocean at its most dangerous. Casey follows big-wave surfers in their often suicidal attempts to tackle monsters made of H2O, and also interviews scientists exploring the danger that global warning will bring us more and larger waves. This dangerous water includes rogue waves south of Africa, storm-born giants near Hawaii, and the biggest wave ever recorded, a 1,740 foot-high wall of wave (taller than one and a third Empire State Buildings) that blasted the Alaska coastline in 1958. Read the first chapter for free > OR Buy the book from >Ĭasey, O magazine editor-in-chief, travels across the world and into the past to confront the largest waves the oceans have to offer.
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