My New Book Released: One Man’s Beach

In 2010, One Man’s Beach: A Thousand Rambles Down Nestucca Spit was nearly published by a national publisher. The deal fell through. “Too regional,” someone in New York said. For reasons I no longer recall, I shelved the project. Fifteen years later, I returned to Nestucca Spit and rambled once again, with a new dog, and the experience convinced me to release this book as it was written with a new introduction.

One Man’s Beach is a book of memoir, history, dogs, polemic, sex, beer, ecology, meditation, and photographs about a special stretch of sand and dunes that was almost destroyed in the 1960s by an insane plan to relocate Highway 101 right through it. One man, a politician named Bob Straub saved it forever and I am eternally grateful for his heroism. Without Nestucca Spit and Oregon’s unprecedented legacy of publicly-owned beaches, I would have never become a writer.

Available as an e-book on Amazon or contact me through the web site for a PDF.

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