Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds : A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything in It

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 FranzenCharles 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 hi