Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, by Bathsheba Demuth Patrick Jarenwattananon/NPR hide caption toggle caption Patrick Jarenwattananon/NPR Review Book Reviews 'Floating Coast' Reads Like A Eulogy To The Natural World — With A Sliver Of Hope August 21, 2019 The triumph of this book is how Bathsheba Demuth pulls seemingly disparate threads together into a net of actions and consequences from which the whales, the Yupik, and our children can't escape.