Deep Waters
A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled
1st Edition
Published on 2. May 2023
352 pages
978-1-64742-467-1 (ISBN)
Description
?. . . a survival story of the highest order, navigating the complex terrain of marriage, medical crisis, and a future reimagined.?
?CAROLINE VAN HEMERT, award-winning author of The Sun is a Compass
A marine biologist's adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska's magnificent yet unforgiving waters.
?CAROLINE VAN HEMERT, award-winning author of The Sun is a Compass
A marine biologist's adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska's magnificent yet unforgiving waters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
3,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-64742-467-1 (9781647424671)
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05/2023
She Writes Press
€17.40
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Person
Beth Ann Mathews grew up the Midwest and earned her master's degree in marine biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. As an associate professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, she taught courses in biology, behavioral ecology, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals, Steller sea lions, and harbor porpoises. She has also studied humpback, gray, and sperm whales and led undergraduate research programs on board tall ships in the Gulf of Maine and from field camps in Hawaii and Alaska. Mathews has published numerous scientific papers (Elizabeth A. Mathews), and her memoir Deep Waters was a finalist for the Nancy Pearl, Best Book Award for Memoir, and a three-time finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards (Grand Prize, Memoir, and Debut Author). She lives on an island with her husband in Puget Sound, WA.
