Peter Nichols

Peter Nichols is the author of the national best sellers Evolution’s Captain and A Voyage for Madmen; a memoir, Sea Change: Alone across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat; and the novel Voyage to the North Star. His book about nineteenth-century whaling will be published by Putnam in 2009. He has taught creative writing at Georgetown University, New York University, and Bowdoin College. Before turning to writing full-time, he was a professional yacht captain.

Interview – Issue 6

The Ecotone Interview with Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Penguin, 2008). His previous book The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin, 2006), was named one of the ten best books of…

Nonfiction – Issue 7

Captain FitzRoy’s Protégé

When he came home from his circumnavigation of the world aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin had a book to write. It was to be one volume—essentially a footnote—of a much larger work describing the Beagle’s two voyages up to that…