Catching the Tide

Here's the booklist for next semester's English 1A:

Daniel Duane's Caught Inside;
Curtis Ebbesmeyer & Eric Scigliano's Flotsametrics and the Floating World;
Laurence Gonzales' Deep Survival;
William Langewiesche's The Outlaw Sea;
Jack London's The Sea-Wolf;
and John McPhee's The Control of Nature.

Of course, there will be additional readings to set the tone and direct the pace of things.  Handouts!

(Also: selected videos on surfing, sharks, marine mammals, ships and shipping, the Mississippi River Delta, storms, volcanoes, disasters, and so forth.)