Charles Hood- Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds

In Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds: A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything in It, renowned essayist Charles Hood embarks on an extraordinary voyage across one of the planet's most mysterious and awe-inspiring landscapes: the Pacific Ocean. Following the success of his Foreword INDIES Book of the Year–winning A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature, Hood once again blends his passion for the natural world with curiosity, sharp insight, and wit.

Despite his fear of water, or perhaps because of it, Hood takes readers along the Pacific Rim, navigating the vast expanse of the Pacific in search of elusive seabirds, tempestuous weather, and personal revelations. With an eye trained on the skies for petrels, frigate birds, and flying fish, Hood also delves into the ocean's deep cultural and ecological significance, connecting the natural world to art, history, and the deep wounds—both emotional and ecological—left by World War II.

In his most personal book to date, Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds offers a compelling new entry into the genre of nature writing. With his trademark blend of encyclopedic knowledge and literary flair, Hood is poised to solidify his position as one of the most celebrated nature writers of his generation. Blending travelogue, nature writing, and memoir, Hood sees both the ghosts of the Pacific and all of the wondrous, strange life that calls it home.

Poet and essayist Charles Hood has been a factory worker, a ski instructor, and a birding guide in Africa. His recent books published by Heyday include Nocturnalia, an appreciation of nature after dark, and the essay collection A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature. His wildlife studies have taken him around the world, from the high Arctic to the South Pole, and from Tibet to West Africa to the Amazon. Mammal no. 1,000 seen and recorded on his world animal list was a Crossley's dwarf lemur in Madagascar. (Mammal no. 999 was a Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat.) Recently retired and now professor emeritus, Hood lives in the Mojave Desert with two kayaks, two mountain bikes, two dogs, and five thousand books.

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