Susan Casey's The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks;
Matthew B. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work;
Laurence Gonzales' Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why;
Tom Kendrick's Bluewater Gold Rush: The Odyssey of a California Sea Urchin Diver;
William Langewiesche's The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime;
and
Philbrook's In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.
Also, a good college-level dictionary.
Plus selected essays and chapters from Ebbesmeyer & Scigliano, Whitty, Wells, Steinbeck, and others as well as selected videos on sharks, marine mammals, abalone and urchin diving, and related local material. (Perhaps Steinbeck and Hemingway on writing too.)
Summer planning will be fun.
P.S. All those subtitles look a bit daunting, don't they? Or, those subtitles combine with the titles to draw you in, draw you closer!
Here's the list again, but just with the basic titles:
The Devil's Teeth
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Deep Survival
Bluewater Gold Rush
The Outlaw Sea
In the Heart of the Sea
