After 274 days at sea, Jim Shekhdar became the first person to row across the Pacific single-handedly. Starting from Peru without a tin opener, his journey became more perilous when he had to fend off sharks with a makeshift spear and when an oil tanker nearly ended his life. His arrival in Queensland 10,000 miles later was unforgettable.
Snyder joins his old friend, novelist Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives. This book is a companion to the film "The Practice of the Wild" and comes with a DVD containing the film together with more than an hour of outtakes and expanded interviews.
Publishers Weekly called Jim Harrison "an untrammeled renegade genius," a poet who performed "absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.
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