Review: Seven-Tenths by David Fisichella

Format Read: eARC from NetGalleyNumber of Pages: 232Release Date: April 1, 2010Publisher: Leapfrog PressFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info: Amazon, Goodreads

Book Blurb:  An engineer whose life is in shambles meets a blind oceanographer who spends her life at sea. In this memoir of their courtship, David Fisichella writes of science, love, adventure, and danger on the ocean. He survives heavy weather, an equator crossing, and a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. He learns how scientists study ocean physics and why their research is so important, how people live for months on a crowded boat, and what it means to be working for, and dating, the chief scientist. Told with humor, gritty details, and a refreshing sense of wonder about our oceans.

My Thoughts:“Love, Piracy and Science at Sea.” That subtitle really caught my attention right off the …