James Nestor (writer)

James Nestor is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for Outside magazine, Men's Journal, Dwell magazine, National Public Radio, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle magazine, and others.

His science/adventure book, DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves was released on June 24, 2014. DEEP was an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, BBC Book of the Week, BuzzFeed 19 Best Nonfiction Book of 2014, ArtForum Top 10 Book of 2014, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. In 2015, the PEN American Center awarded DEEP^[1] as one of the five best books of Literary Sports Writing. It has been translated into German, Chinese, Italian; editions in Polish and Portuguese will be released in 2016.^[2]

Nestor's longform piece for the electronic publishing house, The Atavist, was released in December 2012. The story, Half Safe: A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-world Adventure documents Ben Carlin's arduous decade-long, around-the-world journey on land and by sea in the same vehicle, the first and only circumnavigation of its kind ever attempted ― or completed.

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