Richard J. King is the author most recently of Sailing Alone: a History and Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton. He is also the author Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick, Lobster, The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History, and Meeting Tom Brady. King has published widely on maritime topics in scholarly and popular magazines. Read more at http://richardjking.info.
Books in order of publication:
Lobster – 2011
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History – 2013
Meeting Tom Brady – 2015
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick” – 2019
Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton -2023
Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea -2023
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