The Gulf: The Making of an American SeaWinner Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWinner Kirkus Prize for NonfictionFinalist National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptainBooklist Editors Choice (History)Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this cri de coeur about the Gulfs environmental ruin (New York Times), Davis has written a beautiful

is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl

with notes and a fascinating introduction

Over the decade it took to uncover this story

WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK

He is quick to offer Helen his friendship

or life transition

He is charming

This final volume finds the admiral dealing with European and Japanese spies and assassins in the Pacific while on a “diplomatic” recon mission ahead of the Great White Fleet‘s epic 1907-09 voyage around the world

the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck

this is a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship

is also an intensely dramatic work

The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O