Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris

by Bonnie Henderson

In Strand, travel writer and amateur naturalist Bonnie Henderson traces the stories of wrack washed up on the mile-long stretch of Oregon beach she has walked regularly for more than a decade. Henderson's writing conveys both a keen attention to the specifics of place and an expansive field of vision. The burned hull of a long-abandoned fishing boat, a glass fishing float, the egg case of a skate, a beached minke whale, an unusual number of dead murres,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870712993
• ISBN13: 9780870712999
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"