• For fans of John Krakauer's Into Thin Air, DavidGrann's The Lost City of Z, Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, RinkerBuck's The Oregon Trail, and Nate Blakeslee's American Wolf

An expansive portrait of the Pacific Northwest and a uniquemeld of memoir, history, and firsthand, journalistic exploration

• Features original maps of the Columbia River Bar,chronicling a dozen of the 2,000 shipwrecks that have occurred there, as wellas original photographs from the author's 2021 journey

• We are approaching Sebastian Junger and Nathaniel Philbrickfor blurbs

• A sweeping portrait of the landscape of the PacificNorthwest, with emphasis on both its rich maritime history

• Randall Sullivan, acclaimed journalist who has investigatedthe murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. (in LAbyrinth and DeadWrong), hidden treasure on Oak Island in Nova Scotia (in The Curse ofOak Island), and the life and death of Michael Jackson (in Untouchable),now turns inwards in his most personal work yet as he crosses the ColumbiaRiver Bar and comes to terms with a childhood of abuse.

• Publishing just before Father's Day (6/18)