![]() ![]() Casey, whose first bestseller was about Great White Sharks, weaves together three different story lines to explore what she calls “the freaks, rogues, and giants of the oceans.” She visits the scientists who are tracking and trying to predict and understand these giants. The Wave is one of the most suspenseful and fascinating works of narrative nonfiction that I’ve read in a long time. “You take the leaf out,” Hamilton told her, “and the leaf brings you home.” So far it’s worked for him. ![]() As Susan Casey reports in her masterful book, The Wave, California-born but Hawaii-bred surfing legend Laird Hamilton, perhaps superstitiously, always carries a ti leaf along with him as he hunts down the world’s monster waves. Their custom was to carry ti leafs with them when they went on risky journeys. The ancient Polynesians felt profound respect for the power of the sea. ![]()
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