This book has been removed from school libraries and curricula across the U.S. because of the story it tells so plainly, poignantly, and without gratuitous effect.
The new journey is a continuation of Eruç’s first solo human-powered circumnavigation, which he completed in 2012 after five years and 41,196 miles by rowboat, sea kayak, foot, and bicycle.
Grandfather returned to Kansas after the war but was unable to make a go of it. He left his wife and children in 1927 to join the stream of unemployed men heading west.
In the last two years, 19 censorship bills became law across the country, including gag orders on public school teachers and librarians, according to the National Education Association.
Together with Ed Ricketts’ seminal Between Pacific Tides (1939), “it was going to be a trilogy that would complete the biological intertidal scientific data on the entire West Coast of the United States to Mexico and as far as Alaska.
"The authors' message is clear: Mass shootings are preventable by numerous routes through individual, institutional, and societal effort. We’re just doing it wrong."
The Key Peninusula has been home to anarchists, millionaires, loggers, and poets. It remains the summer refuge for whatever the opposite of a snowbird is.