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.)