Culture

Here’s what we’re reading, watching and listening to this month.

Recently reprinted by Patagonia from the original 1978 first edition, Audrey Sutherland’s Paddling My Own Canoe is the story of her quest to explore the remote waters on the northeast side of Molokai, Hawaii.

Whether it’s a beautiful varnished mahogany runabout cutting across a glassy lake or a sleek center console taking on a tumultuous inlet, Chris-Craft boats have an unmistakable look and impeccable style, in large part because the builder has been refining its designs for 144 years.

Click a button on your computer screen today and in a couple of days, a smartphone arrives from China.

Audrey Sutherland decided at age 60 that she’d undertake a solo, summerlong kayak voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska.

More than 70 islands dot the seascape between New York Harbor and Fishers Island Sound on the New England coast.

Packed with powerful photographs of shipwrecks from all over the world, Stefano Banazzo’s 144-page Wrecks: The Memory Of The Sea commemorates these ships’ histories and the sailors who ran them.

With masts reaching high into the sky and carrying more canvas than any boat their size should, Chesapeake Bay log canoes require a hefty crew perched outboard on long boards to keep them balanced and upright. Watching crews manhandle these graceful, overpowered vessels is a summer Eastern Shore tradition.

Though the majority of seafood consumed in the United States comes from outside the country, there’s a movement toward sustainable, locally raised food from the brine.

If you’ve read any DIY boat repair or maintenance books, there’s a pretty good chance Nigel Calder wrote one of them.

Largely considered one of the greatest novelists who wrote in the English language, Joseph Conrad was born to Polish parents in the Russian Empire before leaving at age 16 to become a sailor.

Anyone who has cruised offshore knows the sea can play tricks on the mind.