- Publisher: Grove
- Year: 2023
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 268pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 222x144mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781804710364
- Product code: 546762
Graveyard of the Pacific
Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest Waterway
Randall Sullivan New Hardback Illustrated
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In July 2021 Randall Sullivan and a friend kayaked across the Columbia River Bar, where the mighty river meets the Pacific over a sandbar and is churned into treacherous eddies and currents. Interweaving history, adventure and memoir, he recounts the ships that have foundered there, his own battle with the waves, and his relationship with his abusive father.
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Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it's nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific.
Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late 18th century. Since then, the commercial importance of the Columbia River has only grown, and the bar remains a site of shipwrecks and dramatic rescues as well as power struggles between small fishermen, powerful shipowners, local communities, the Coast Guard and the Columbia River Bar Pilots - a small group of highly skilled navigators.
When Randall Sullivan and a friend set out to cross the bar in a two-man kayak, they're met with scepticism and concern. But on a clear day in July 2021, when the tides and weather seem right, they embark. As they plunge through the currents that have taken so many lives, Randall commemorates the brave sailors that made the crossing before him - including his own abusive father - and reflects on toxic masculinity, fatherhood and what drives men to extremes.
Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late 18th century. Since then, the commercial importance of the Columbia River has only grown, and the bar remains a site of shipwrecks and dramatic rescues as well as power struggles between small fishermen, powerful shipowners, local communities, the Coast Guard and the Columbia River Bar Pilots - a small group of highly skilled navigators.
When Randall Sullivan and a friend set out to cross the bar in a two-man kayak, they're met with scepticism and concern. But on a clear day in July 2021, when the tides and weather seem right, they embark. As they plunge through the currents that have taken so many lives, Randall commemorates the brave sailors that made the crossing before him - including his own abusive father - and reflects on toxic masculinity, fatherhood and what drives men to extremes.
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In July 2021 Randall Sullivan and a friend kayaked across the Columbia River Bar, where the mighty river meets the Pacific over a sandbar and is churned into treacherous eddies and currents. Interweaving history, adventure and memoir, he recounts the ships that have foundered there, his own battle with the waves, and his relationship with his abusive father.
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