- For fans of John Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, David Grann’s The Lost City of Z, Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail, and Nate Blakeslee’s American Wolf An expansive portrait of the Pacific Northwest and a unique meld 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 well as original photographs from the author’s 2021 journey - We are approaching Sebastian Junger and Nathaniel Philbrick for blurbs - A sweeping portrait of the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, with emphasis on both its rich maritime history - Randall Sullivan, acclaimed journalist who has investigated the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. (in LAbyrinth and Dead Wrong), hidden treasure on Oak Island in Nova Scotia (in The Curse of Oak Island), and the life and death of Michael Jackson (in Untouchable), now turns inwards in his most personal work yet as he crosses the Columbia River Bar and comes to terms with a childhood of abuse. - Publishing just before Father’s Day (6/18)