The Place of Tides by James Rebanks beach vacation Jon Krakauer is the author

Jon Krakauer is the author of Into Thin Air

which examines the legacy of the 1960s

then two years later resigned from journalism to devote himself to fiction

You'll never think about the colonial period in quite the same way after reading GRACE BARCLAY'S DIARY

Her neighbors are hostile

The Place of Tides by James Rebanks beach vacation Jon Krakauer is the authorWe are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries old trade that had once made men and women rich but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on. Back at home, Rebanks couldn't stop thinking about the woman on the rocks.