Richard J. King is a Visiting Associate Professor in Maritime History and Literature with the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He has been sailing on ships throughout the Atlantic and Pacific for twenty-five years and in 2007 sailed across the Atlantic alone in a 28 foot sailboat. He is the author of Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick, The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History, Lobster, Meeting Tom Brady and co-editor of the anthology Audubon at Sea: The Coastal and Trans-Atlantic Writings of John James Audubon.
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