Product Description: Like a Coen brothers noir south of the border, Paraíso is a genre-bending story about love, sibling relationships, and the dark side of paradise. Peter and Wendy—their mother chose the names—felt as close as twins, despite their difference in age...read more

Product Description: “Not since Jacques Cousteau has anyone brought us the sense of the ocean as our home . . . Far more than a science book.” —San Francisco Book ReviewGordon Chaplin’s father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who married a wealthy heiress and transformed himself into the author of a landmark scientific study, Fishes of the Bahamas...read more

The author describes the catastrophic ocean voyage he and his partner, Susan Atkinson, undertook, a journey that ended in tragedy, and his struggle to cope with the grief, anguish, and soul-searching reflections that followed.

The author of Fever Coast Log describes the catastrophic voyage he and his partner, Susan Atkinson, undertook across the Pacific Ocean, a journey that ended in terrible tragedy, and his struggle to cope with the grief, anguish, and soul-searching reflections that followed. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A journalist voyages to Central America to view firsthand the exotic, sometimes seamy life along the coast and retraces the route of a long dead relative, Frederick Catherwood, who had taken part in an archeological excavation of Maya ruins